Seamus De Faoite (1915-80), a native of Killarney was a friend and contemporary of both Bryan MacMahon and Brendan Behan. He attended St Brendan's College, Kilkenny and founded the Killarney Players, who performed his first play 'The Night of the Moon'. After working as a postman, he moved to Dublin, where he worked in advertising to support his theatrical career and acted in The Gaiety's production of his play 'The Cardinal and the Crows'. He was editor of the Waterford Star in 1950 and in 1955 became sub-editor and film critic of The Irish Press until the year of his death.