Patricia Boylan

Patricia Boylan (12 March 1913 – 23 February 2006) was an Irish actor and journalist.

Early life Patricia Boylan was born Patricia Clancy in Coalisland, County Tyrone on 12 March 1913. Her parents were Patrick, a general and wholesale draper and Justice of the Peace, and Anne Clancy (née Treanor). She was the 10th child of 12 children, four girls, and eight boys. The family moved to Dungannon, and then Belfast, where Boylan attended St Patrick's Girls' Academy. Enjoying studying English, and developing an interest in acting, she doorstepped Arthur Shields during his visit to Belfast pretending to be a journalist. She wrote up the meeting, and it was published in The Irish News. Boylan attended the Municipal Technical College, learning typing and shorthand. She trained as a nurse at Leeds General Infirmary from 1932 to 1936, graduating from the Royal College of Nursing, London. She moved with her parents to Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra, Dublin in 1937 and she successfully auditioned for the Abbey Theatre's School of Acting.