Walter Macken，the famous novelist，playwright and actor，was born in Galway in 1915.He first began to write at the age of eight.He joined the Taibhdhearc in 1934，while still attending school. It was there that he met his wife，Peggy Kenny，who was then a news editor.They fell in love，but her father，Tom Cork Kenny didn’t agree to Peggy’s choice，so they had to elope(私奔) and were married in Fairview Church in Dublin on February 9th,1937.They went to London where he worked as an insurance agent，selling insurance door to door，as he later wrote about in I Am Alone.

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