Gallows and Other Tales of Suspicion and Obsession, investigatesthe underbelly of Irish history, using dark comedy and melodrama, from the 17th to the 20th century.The title-story is set in Galway, where Arden lived.
The new collection of stories was launched by writer and Irish Times columnist, Fintan O'Toole on Saturday, November 7th at Galway City Museum at 3pm. It included an exhibition of John Arden's mixed media illustrations, based upon his stories, and a video presentation on aspects of his work and thought.

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"Gallows and Other Tales of Suspicion and Obsession
John Arden in his own words and pictures."
A 20 min documentary of Arden talking about his influences
and about his own illustrations of episodes in Gallows;
filmed and produced by his son Finn Arden.
This also accompanies the book as a DVD

John Arden is the author of a variety of plays, including All Fall Down, which appeared in 1955,  Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (1959), Live Like Pigs, and The Non-Stop Connolly Show, co-authored and co-produced in 1975 with Margaretta D'Arcy. The Business Of Good Government (1960) was their first collaboration. Silence Among the Weapons, his first novel, was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Cogs Tyrannic, a collection of short stories, received the PEN Short Story Prize and his story, 'Breach of Trust,' from the 2003 collection, The Stealing Steps, took the V.S.Pritchett Memorial Prize. Books of Bale: a fiction of history, appeared in 1988. He has also written drama for children, radio plays and work for television, including, with Margaretta D'Arcy in 1973, the documentary  Sean O'Casey: Portrait of a Rebel 

Described in The Guardian newspaper as 'the British Brecht,' Born in Barnsley in Yorkshire, Arden attended Sedbergh School, Yorkshire and studied architecture at King's College Cambridge and the Edinburgh College of Art. Fellow in playwriting at Bristol University, 1959-60 and visiting lecturer in politics and drama, New York University, (1967) he was a founding member of the Theatre Writers' Group, which became the Theatre Writers' Union. He has lived in Ireland for four decades.