James Plunkett
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This entry refers to the Irish writer James Plunkett. For the US athlete see Jim Plunkett.
James Plunkett was the pen-name adopted by James Plunkett Kelly, an Irish writer born in 1920.
Plunkett grew up among the Dublin working class and they, along with the petty bourgeoisie and lower intelligentsia, make up the bulk of the dramatis personae of his oeuvre. His best-known works are the novel Strumpet City, set in Dublin in the years leading up to the lockout of 1913 and during the course of the strike, and the short stories in the collection The Trusting and the Maimed. His other works include a radio play on James Larkin, who figures prominently in his work.