found: New York times WWW site, Feb. 13, 2009(in obituary published Feb. 12: Hugh Leonard; b. John Joseph Byrne, Nov. 9, 1926, Dublin; given up for adoption, he grew up in the Keys family in Dalkey and assumed the name John Keyes Byrne (why he changed the spelling of their name is a mystery, according to his daughter); later adopted the pen name Hugh Leonard; d. Thursday [Feb. 12, 2009], Dublin, aged 82; prolific Irish playwright, memoirist, travel writer, and dyspeptic newspaper columnist whose autobiographical play Da won four Tony Awards in 1978)
