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Sean O'Casey. Seán O'Casey (March 30, 1880 – September 18, 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed nationalist and socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes. His plays are particularly noted for the sympathetic treatment of female characters.
Seán O'Casey. Sean O'Casey was born in 1880 and lived through a bitterly hard boyhood in a Dublin tenement house. He never went to school but received most of his education in the streets of Dublin, and taught himself to read at the age of fourteen. He was successively a newspaper-seller, docker, stone-breaker, railway-worker and builders ...
Poet, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer Sean O’Casey stands as one of the major figures of the Irish Literary Renaissance . Though he began his career as a playwright late in life, he ...
Dec 3, 2018 · Discover Sean O’Casey (1880-1964) Sean O’Casey is an Irish dramatist renowned for his innovative playwriting style, which balances deeply comic and tragic elements in an atmosphere of stark realism, with emphasis on characterization of working and lower class Dubliners. O’Casey was born John Casey on March 30, 1880 in Dublin, Ireland, the ...
Sean O’Casey, orig. John Casey, (born March 30, 1880, Dublin, Ire.—died Sept. 18, 1964, Torquay, Devon, Eng.), Irish playwright. Born to a poor Protestant family, he educated himself and worked from age 14 at manual labour. He embraced the Irish nationalist cause, changed his name to its Irish form, and became active in the labour movement ...
Sean O’Casey, Plays and Other Works. The Shadow of a Gunman, 1923. Kathleen Listens In, 1923. Juno and the Paycock, 1924. Nannie’s Night Out, 1924. The Plough and the Stars, 1926. The Silver Tassie, 1927. Within the Gates, 1934. The End of the Beginning, 1937.
Oct 4, 2023 · 15. The director Garry Hynes has traveled to New York with her acclaimed production of Sean O’Casey’s Dublin trilogy. The plays, she said, are “an extraordinary sort of mix whereby you can ...
