User:M Irfan UCD/sandbox

Early life and family
 Paul Smith (1920-1997)  was an Irish Writer and Playwright. He was born on the 4th of October 1920. His place of birth is near charlemont street, 4 Masterson lane ,Dublin, Ireland. He was from a big family and was one of the ten children of the Edward Smith and Kate Smith (née O'Brien). They were Originally from Co Wicklow. He went through many up and downs in his early life. His father was a wheelwright and he also served in the British army in the world war 1. He was violent and alcoholic man. His mother died when he was only 12 years old. His early life was full of hardship and he went through extreme poverty at the time. They were living in a two room near Grand Canal in Dublin Ireland. He started working at a very young age of 8 as a delivery boy and changed different jobs until the age of 13. His education was not continuous because of the fact that, he faced many struggle in his childhood. His education mostly relied on his own hard work, and he received almost no support from his father when he was small. On a Biographical page of one of his novel, he says that " to this day I cannot recite the alphabet or multiplication tables".

Smith also worked in a garment factory as machinist. His role at the job was to walk-on parts by Hilton Edwards (qv) and Micheál MacLiammóir (qv) of Dublin's Gate Theatre (c.1936). He then became costume maker and a designer for Gate theatre and Abbey theatre in Dublin. He worked with different Film makers on different projects, but his work was never credited.