Kenneth Sarr

Sarr, Kenneth (pseudonym of Kenneth Reddin) (1895-1967), novelist and playwright. Born in Dublin and educated at UCD, he was imprisoned for a time for Republican activities. After the Anglo-Irish War he became a District Justice. Sarr wrote a number of plays for the Abbey Theatre in the manner of T. C. Murray, then turned to fiction with Somewhere to the Sea (1936), which depicts Dublin during the Troubles. Another Shore (1945) and Young Men with a Dream (1946) are further studies of the revolutionary period.