Gerard Stembridge

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title: "Gerard Stembridge" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1958-births", "date-of-birth-missing-(living-people)", "writers-from-limerick-(city)", "people-educated-at-castleknock-college", "auditors-of-the-literary-and-historical-society-(university-college-dublin)", "alumni-of-university-college-dublin", "irish-schoolteachers", "mount-temple-comprehensive-school", "mass-media-people-from-limerick-(city)", "irish-satirists", "irish-film-directors", "living-people"] description: "Irish writer, director and actor (born 1958)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Stembridge" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Irish writer, director and actor (born 1958) ::

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Field	Value
name	Gerry Stembridge
birth_date
birth_place	County Limerick, Ireland
occupation	Writer, director, novelist
notableworks	Scrap Saturday (1989–91)
Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
Nora (2000)
Counting Down (2009)
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|name = Gerry Stembridge |birth_date = |birth_place = County Limerick, Ireland |occupation = Writer, director, novelist |notableworks = Scrap Saturday (1989–91) Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000) Nora (2000) Counting Down (2009)

Gerard "Gerry" Stembridge (born 1958, County Limerick, Ireland) is an Irish writer, director and actor. |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article724863.ece |title=Gerry Stembridge |work=The Times Online |accessdate=4 May 2009 |date=5 February 2006 |author=Mick Heaney | location=London}} He was educated at CBS Sexton Street in Limerick and later at Castleknock College. While attending University College Dublin, he was auditor of the Literary and Historical Society. |url=http://www.ucd.ie/lnh/L&H%20auditors.pdf |title=UCD L&H Auditors |work=UCD L&H Website |accessdate=15 March 2010}} He taught English, history and drama at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Clontarf.

Radio

He reached significant prominence in Ireland when he co-created the satirical comedy radio programme Scrap Saturday with Dermot Morgan. It became one of the most popular programmes on RTÉ Radio.

Film career

Stembridge wrote the screenplay for Ordinary Decent Criminal (which starred Kevin Spacey and Linda Fiorentino). He co-wrote Nora, a film about James Joyce and Nora Barnacle which starred Ewan McGregor and Susan Lynch. He has directed such films as Guiltrip, Black Day at Black Rock, Alarm and About Adam.

Playwright

A selection of his plays include

• 1992
• Betrayals
• Ceaucescu's Ear (Teatru Míc in Bucharest)
• Daniel's Hands (City Arts Centre, Dublin)
• Denis and Rose (Civic Theatre, Dublin)
• The Gay Detective (Project Arts Centre, Dublin)
• Love Child
• Melting Penguins
• That Was Then (Abbey Theatre, Dublin).
• The Leaving

Novels

Stembridge's latest novel The Effect of Her was published in 2013. He is also the author of three earlier novels: Unspoken (Old Street Press), Counting Down{{cite web |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/count-on-it-gerry-is-back-on-form-1613202.html |title=Count on it, Gerry is back on form |work=Irish Independent |accessdate=4 May 2009 |date=4 January 2009 |author=Ian O'Doherty}} and According to Luke{{cite web |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/why-every-unhappy-family-is-unhappy-in-its-own-way-137262.html |title=Why every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way |work=Irish Independent |accessdate=4 May 2009 |date=26 November 2006 |author=Sile McArdle}} (both Penguin Ireland).

References

References

1. Stewart, Bruce. "Gerry Stembridge". RICORSO - A Knowledge of Irish Literature.

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