O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962.
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Sean O'Casey
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Standard Name: O'Casey, Sean
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Constance Countess Markievicz | CCM
was later attacked for her Liberty Hall work by future playwright Sean O'Casey
, then a secretary for the strikers' relief fund. In his autobiography, Drums Under the Windows, he accuses Markievicz of... |
| Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Devlin | After writing for television, AD
was drawn to live theatre because of the medium's relative freedom from censorship and its enduring qualities: It is Literature. When you create a character in the theatre you are... |
| Leisure and Society | Kate O'Brien | As a student in Dublin, KOB
eagerly attended the Abbey Theatre
. This was a period between Synge
and O'Casey
, but she delighted in plays by Shaw
, beginning with Man and Superman. |
| Literary responses | Edna O'Brien | Jonathan Yardley
, reviewing for the Washington Post, stressed O'Brien's brilliance and her nationality. If what you're looking for is a map of Ireland, the fiction of Edna O'Brien will do just fine. She... |
| Literary responses | Muriel Box | Its recent editors call it very much a beginner's piece of work with regard to dialogue and stage impact. Yet they feel it is valuable for exemplifying the way that feminist ideas survived and continued... |
| Literary responses | Teresa Deevy | The Belfast News-Letter reviewed this volume in February next year along with work by O'Casey
, Yeats
, and Lennox Robinson
. The reviewer was impressed by different qualities in all of these, but judged... |
| Literary responses | Mary Lavin | Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly in October 1941, the storyAt Sallygap has been likened to the works of James Joyce
and Sean O'Casey
. Peterson, Richard F. Mary Lavin. Twayne, 1978. 26 Kelly, Angeline Agnes. Mary Lavin, Quiet Rebel. Wolfhound Press, 1980, http://PS 3523 A946 Z7 K29 1980 HSS. 73, 156, 191 |
| Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | TD
had her great success with the play Katie Roche, which after its debut at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, was in 1938 seen both at the Abbey's festival (alongside work by O'Casey |
| Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | This ran for six performances. The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline |
| Textual Production | Samuel Beckett | Meanwhile Beckett withdrew permission for any of his works to be produced in Ireland when, also in February 1958, Drums of Father Ned by Sean O'Casey
was dropped by the Dublin Drama Festival Committee. This... |
Timeline
19 November 1913: James Connolly founded the Irish Citizen...
National or international item
19 November 1913
James Connolly
founded the Irish Citizen Army
(ICA) in Dublin during the 1913 Lock-out.
Cronin, Sean. Irish Nationalism: A History of Its Roots and Ideology. Academy Press, 1980.
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Tóibín, Colm. “After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2016, pp. 11-23. 21
12 April 1923: The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey,...
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12 April 1923
The career as a dramatist of Sean O'Casey
, labourer and IRA
member, took off when his play The Shadow of a Gunman was produced at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, which had by...
3 March 1924: Sean O'Casey followed his first success at...
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3 March 1924
Sean O'Casey
followed his first success at the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, with a play about war entitled Juno and the Paycock.
Tóibín, Colm. “After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2016, pp. 11-23. 22
August 1925: Sean O'Casey submitted to the Abbey Theatre,...
Writing climate item
August 1925
Sean O'Casey
submitted to the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, the first and only play to deal with the topic of the Easter Rising of 1916: The Plough and the Stars.
Tóibín, Colm. “After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2016, pp. 11-23. 22
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