His plays Operation Mulungusi and The Prince won the National Book Trust of Uganda Award NABOTU 2000 and he was nominated for the Uganda Literature Prize 2001.
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After his death, UWA established a Patrick O'Brien Foundation 'in honour of his outstanding contribution to issues of public policy and political debate in Australia' with funds donated by colleagues, friends and admirers.
Africa in world affairs: Challenges to humanities pp.
Drama for life: Stories of adult learning and empowerment. Intellectual Suppression: Australian Case Histories, Analysis and Responses. University of Western Australia.
NextHe was educated at St Mary's Primary School, , St John's Marist Brothers School, and St Kevin's Christian Brothers College,.
Melbourne Journal of Politics. Prior to embarking on his academic career at the University of Western Australia UWA in 1969, he had worked as a press and radio journalist for four years and gained eight years' experience of teaching in primary, secondary and senior technical education. McLauchlan eds 2006 , Universal Mosaic of Drama and Theatre:The IDEA 2004 Dialogues.
Retrieved 17 March 2011.
In Martin, Brian; Baker, CM Ann; Manwell, Clyde; et al. Orientations of drama, Theatre and Culture pp.
NextAlthough his father was a Christian deacon, it has been suggested that he probably took on the role because of tax incentives and there is no evidence that Patrick came from a particularly religious family.
Donnelan eds 1996 , education, Culture and empowerment. He is believed to have died on March 17, around 460 A. Patrick, including the famous account of his banishing all the snakes from Ireland, are , the products of hundreds of years of exaggerated storytelling.
NextHe has received a number of fellowships and awards including: School of Art Scholarship for A PhD, School of Art, Griffith University, Australia; Creative Writing Fellowship, Poet in residence, , Stuttgart, Germany; Certificate of recognition for Contribution to the Development of Literature and Writing in Uganda by , ; Nominatation for the Uganda Literature Prize 2002 for plays: Operation Mulungusi and the Prince; Uganda National Book Trust Literary Award: Operation Mulungusi and the Prince; and Commonwealth Scholarship for MA Theatre Studies University of Leeds, UK.
At UWA, he became an associate professor in political science 'with a particular focus on twentieth century totalitarianism and was best known publicly for his involvement in two high-profile campaigns, as a leading critic of the Western Australian Burke Labor government... They transported him to Ireland where he spent six years in captivity.
NextHe was a guest poet at the 2003 Queensland Poetry Festival and one of the featured writers at the 2005 Brisbane Writers Festival.
He also holds a Certificate in Distance Learning Writing Development Crossing Borders program , and , Uganda.
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