The Shadow Of A Gunman by Seán O'Casey was premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on 12th April 1923. It is the first in O'Casey's "Dublin Trilogy" - the other two being Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the Stars (1926).
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Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh) was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin on 30th March 1880. He was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
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The world premiere of Sean O’Casey’s Juno And The Paycock took place at the Abbey Theatre on 3rd March 1924.
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The first performance of Seán O'Casey's the Plough and the Stars took place at the Abbey theatre on 8 February 1926. The play was well received on its opening night. But on subsequent nights audience unrest began and on 11 February Cumann na mBan and Sinn Féin members rioted at perceived insults to the men who had died during the Rising.
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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
-- Sean O'Casey
A interesting (well, to me at least) class/politically-based analysis of Seán O’Casey and his works.
An abbreviated version of this feature has already appeared online but this is a much fuller piece by the Galway-based lecturer and writer, Jenny Farrell, who is also an Associate Editor of Culture Matters. The sixtieth anniversary of Seán O’Casey’s death fell on 18 September, just past. Here, Jenny Farrell explores O'Casey’s works, resistance to
Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh) died on 18 September 1964 at the age of 84. He was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
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The Shadow Of A Gunman by Seán O'Casey was premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on 12th April 1923. It is the first in O'Casey's "Dublin Trilogy" - the other two being Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the Stars (1926).
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Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh) was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin on 30th March 1880. He was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #SeánOCasey #Dublin #OnThisDay
The world premiere of Sean O’Casey’s Juno And The Paycock took place at the Abbey Theatre on 3rd March 1924.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #SeanOCasey #JunoAndThePaycock #AbbeyTheatre #OnThisDay
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