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Sam Thompson (playwright)
Sam(uel) Thompson (21 May 1916 – 15 February 1965) was a Northern Irish playwright best known for his controversial plays ''Over the Bridge'', which exposes sectarianism, and ''Cemented with Love'', which focuses on political corruption. His works fall into the social realist genre but are distinct in their dramatisation of Northern Irish issues; they were ground-breaking in documenting sectarian violence before the eruption of the Troubles.〔
==Life==
Born and educated in a working-class Protestant area in Ballymacarrett, Belfast, Thompson was the seventh of eight children of a lamp-lighter and part-time sexton of St Clement's Church.〔〔(Sam Thompson ) (accessed 16 November 2007)〕 He spent most of his working life as a painter in the Belfast shipyards, starting aged 14 at Harland and Wolff and working for Belfast Corporation after the Second World War, and much of his writing draws on these experiences.〔(Parker M. ''Northern Irish Literature 1956–1975'' Vol. 1: ''The Imprint of History'', ch. 1 (Palgrave Macmillan; 2007) ) (accessed 15 November 2007)〕〔
Thompson was a lifelong socialist and a committed trades unionist;〔〔 he became a shop steward at the Belfast Corporation.〔 His opposition to sectarian discrimination was to cost him his job.〔 He stood unsuccessfully for parliament as the Labour party candidate for the rural South Down constituency in 1964.〔(Pettitt L. 'Television drama and the Troubles' in: ''Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation'' (Manchester University Press; 2000) (ISBN 0 7190 5270 X) ) (accessed 15 November 2007)〕〔
He married May Thompson in 1947.〔 He suffered a heart attack in June 1961, dying suddenly from a second heart attack in 1965.〔〔( McAleavey J. "Sam Thompson (1916–1965)" in: ''Irish Playwrights, 1880–1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook'', Demastes WW, Schrank B, eds, pp. 367–74 (Greenwood Press, 1997) ) (accessed 15 November 2007)〕
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