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Shelagh Delaney
[[Image:Girlfriend in a Coma.png|thumb|right|Delaney was featured twice on [[The Smiths|Smiths]] record sleeves, including this one for their 1987 single, "Girlfriend in a Coma".]]⏎
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'''Shelagh Delaney, FRSL''' (born 25 November 1939) is an [[England|English]] [[playwright]], best known for her debut work, ''[[A Taste of Honey]]''.

(contracted; show full)''Sweetly Sings the Donkey'', several television plays, including ''Did your Nanny Come from Bergen?'' (1970), and ''St Martin's Summer'' (1974), award-winning scripts such as ''[[Charlie Bubbles]]'' (1967) and ''[[Dance with a Stranger]]'' (1985), and radio plays, i.e. ''So Does the Nightingale'' (1980), but Delaney never repeated the level of success she did with her first play. 


Delaney was featured twice on [[The Smiths|Smiths]] record sleeves, including their 1987 single, "Girlfriend in a Coma".⏎
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==Honours==
In 1985, Delaney was made a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].

==Family==
She has one daughter, Charlotte, born in 1964 in London.

==External links==
*[http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Shelagh_Delaney.aspx Encyclopedia entry for Delaney]
*{{imdb|0216340}}
*[http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=delash The Orlando Project]

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|NAME              = Delaney, Shelagh
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|SHORT DESCRIPTION = English playwright
|DATE OF BIRTH     = 25 November 1939
|PLACE OF BIRTH    = [[Broughton, Greater Manchester|Broughton]], [[Salford, Greater Manchester|Salford]], [[England]]
|DATE OF DEATH     = 
|PLACE OF DEATH    =}}

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[[Category:English people of Irish descent]]
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[[Category:People from Broughton]]

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