John Brendan Keane (21 July 1928 – 30 May 2002) was an Irish playwright, novelist and essayist from Listowel, County Kerry.
List of works
- Many Young Men of Twenty (1946)
 - Sive (1959)
 - Sharon’s Grave (1960)
 - The Highest House on the Mountain (1961)
 - The Man From Clare (1962)
 - The Year of the Hiker (1963)
 - The Field (1965)
 - Hut 42 (1968)
 - The Rain at the End of the Summer (1968)
 - Big Maggie (1969)
 - Moll (1971)
 - The One-Way Ticket (1972)
 - Values (1973)
 - The Crazy Wall (1973)
 - The Change in Mame Fadden (1973)
 - Letters of a Matchmaker (1975)
 - The Buds of Ballybunion (1979)
 - The Chastitute (1981)
 - Man of the Triple Name (1984)
 - Owl Sandwiches (1985)
 - The Bodhran Makers (1986)
 - The Contractors (1988)
 - The Ram of God and Other Stories (1992)
 - Durango: A Novel (1992)
 - Faoiseamh
 - Pishogue
 - No More in Dust