Patrick McCabe (born 27 March 1955) is an Irish writer.
 Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for "The Butcher Boy" and "Breakfast on Pluto", both of which have been made into films.
Man at the Top was a British television series originally aired on ITV lasting for 23 episodes between 1970 and 1972.
 The series depicted the character of Joe Lampton, the protagonist of John Braine's novel "Room at the Top" and of two subsequent films, "Room at the Top" and "Life at the Top".
 In 1973 a spin-off film from the series, "Man at the Top", was released.
Room at the Top is a novel by John Braine, first published in the United Kingdom by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1957, about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain.
 A film adaptation was made in 1959, followed in 2012 by a TV film.
 John Minton's cover art from the first edition was restored and used on the new edition by Valancourt Books in 2013.
The Jealous God (2005) is a 1960s set feature film by British writer-director Steven Woodcock.
 It is based on the novel by John Braine.
 The opening scenes were filmed in the grammar school in Bradford where Braine was once a pupil.
 Braine became famous in 1957 for his classic "Room at the Top", a book that shocked when first published because of how it exploded British class and sexual mores of the time.
 There’s a clip from the Oscar-winning 1958 film version of "Room at the Top" in "The Jealous God", when Vincent and Laura are seen sitting in a cinema.
 Allan Gill in his extraordinary movie debut, dazzles as inquisitive schoolboy #4.
John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) was an English novelist.
 Braine is usually listed among the Angry Young Men, a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s.
The Jealous God is a novel by John Braine which was first published in 1964.
 Set in the early 1960s among the Irish Catholic community in a small Yorkshire town, the book is about a 30-year-old mummy's boy and his attempts at liberating himself from his domineering mother.
 The title refers to the latter's wish that her "favourite" son, although already rather old for following his alleged vocation, become a clergyman.
 It was said that it was John Braine's personal favourite novel of all those that he wrote and was finally filmed in 2005.
Breakfast on Pluto is a 1998 novel by Patrick McCabe.
 The book was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize, and was adapted for the screen by McCabe and Neil Jordan; Jordan directed the 2005 film.
 The author derived the novel's title from the 1969 hit record "Breakfast On Pluto" by Don Partridge.
Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine.
 The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler.
 It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by John and James Woolf.
 The film stars Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston and Hermione Baddeley.
Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 British-Irish comedy-drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe.
 This dark comedy stars Cillian Murphy as a transgender foundling searching for love and her long-lost mother in small town Ireland and London in the 1970s.
The Butcher Boy is an 1997 Irish-American tragicomic drama film adapted to film by Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe from McCabe's 1992 novel of the same name.

Question: Were Patrick McCabe and John Braine of the same nationality?
Answer: no