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