Patrick Campbell

About Patrick Campbell

Patrick Campbell is an Irish rugby union player who plays as a wing or fullback for RFU Championship club Ealing Trailfinders.

Occupation: rugby union player
Born: July 22, 2002

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Patrick Campbell (born 22 July 2002) is an Irish rugby union player who plays as a wing or fullback for RFU Championship club Ealing Trailfinders.

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Early life and GAA career

Born in Rochestown, Cork, Campbell attended Presentation Brothers College and, alongside future Munster teammate Alex Kendellen, helped the school to the final of the 2020 Munster Schools Rugby Senior Cup, which was curtailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In addition to rugby, Campbell was also a Gaelic footballer for Nemo Rangers, and was part of the Cork team that won the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship in 2019, with Campbell scoring 1–2 and earning the player of the match award in the semi-final against Mayo and scoring 0–1 in the final against Galway.

Notable quotes

“Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!”
— Reply to a young actress who asserted that an older actor in a production showed too much affection for the leading man (c. 1910); as reported by Alan Dent in Mrs. Patrick Campbell, p. 78 (1961).
“Oh dear me — it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you — but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!”
— Letter to George Bernard Shaw (1 November 1912) published in Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1952), p. 52; this was later used in the play Dear Liar : A Biography in Two Acts (1960) by Jerome Kilty, an adaptation of the correspondence between Shaw and Campbell.
“The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.”
— Quoted in Alexander Woollcott, “The First Mrs. Tanqueray,” While Rome Burns (1934)
“She has such pretty little eyes — And they're so close together!”
— Comment about actress Norma Shearer, quoted in They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets Of The 1930's (1974) by John Shipman Springer and, Jack D. Hamilton, p. 54
“That's because Tallulah's always skating on thin ice, and they want to be there when it breaks.”
— On the glut of celebrities attending the original production of Thornton Wilder's ; as quoted in "The Lyon's Den" by Jeffrey Lyons, Dayton Daily News (March 4, 1943), p. 25

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Patrick Campbell

Patrick Campbell

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Ireland under-20s