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    Seán O'Casey (Irish: Seán Ó Cathasaigh [ˈʃaːn̪ˠ oː ˈkahəsˠiː]; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist...
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    Seán O'Casey Bridge (Irish: Droichead Sheáin Uí Chathasaigh) is a pedestrian swingbridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, joining City Quay...
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  • descent; the playwright Seán O'Casey was her great-grandfather. Her paternal grandfather was of Lithuanian-Jewish heritage. O'Casey has dyslexia and attended...
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  • O'Casey include: Seán O'Casey (1880–1964), Irish playwright Eileen O'Casey (1900–1995), Irish actress, author, and wife of Sean O'Casey Breon O'Casey...
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  • Juno and the Paycock (category Plays by Seán O'Casey)
    Juno and the Paycock is a play by Seán O'Casey. Highly regarded and often performed in Ireland, it was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924...
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    American theatre impresario Lee Ephraim, Seán began to court her doggedly. Eileen appeared in her second role in an O'Casey play in June 1927, playing Minnie...
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  • Machine A Celtic Artist: Breon O'Casey, Jack O'Sullivan with Sophie Bowness, Lund Humphries (2003). Obituary of Breon O’Casey, The Daily Telegraph, 1 June...
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  • The Plough and the Stars (category Plays by Seán O'Casey)
    The Plough and the Stars is a four-act play by the Irish writer Seán O'Casey that was first performed on 8 February 1926 at the Abbey Theatre. It is set...
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  • Young Cassidy (category Films based on works by Seán O'Casey)
    of the playwright Seán O'Casey. Set in 1911 and the growing protest against British rule in Ireland, young John Cassidy (Seán O'Casey) is a labourer by...
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    Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Hiberno-English, is a male given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name...
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    capital of Ireland. It was reputedly a favourite dish of the writers Seán O'Casey and Jonathan Swift, and it appears in several references to Dublin, including...
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  • in the work of Seán O'Casey, creating the role of Joxer in the Broadway musical Juno in 1959, based on Juno and the Paycock, O'Casey's 1924 play about...
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  • Captain Jack Boyle Seán O'Casey Howard Davies Royal National Theatre, London Juno and the Paycock Captain Jack Boyle Seán O'Casey Howard Davies Abbey/Peacock...
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    and Jack White on 23 November 1913. Other prominent members included Seán O'Casey, Constance Markievicz, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, P. T. Daly and Kit...
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  • the first 3 seasons on The Clinic. Theatre roles include the Juno, in Seán O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, played opposite Donal McCann, John Kavanagh and...
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    acclaimed performance in the West End hit Red Roses for Me (written by Seán O'Casey). This was seen by Alexander Korda, who signed Moore to a long-term contract...
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    Ireland, on the border with County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. His father Seán Brady and mother Mollie Brady née McElholm were school teachers. Brady was...
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    Juno and the Paycock (film) (category Films based on works by Seán O'Casey)
    The film was based on the successful 1924 play of the same name by Seán O'Casey. That play has been filmed a number of other times for television. Barry...
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    of which Markievicz was also a member). Secretary to the ICA Council, Seán O'Casey, described the formation of the Irish Volunteers as "one of the most...
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  • of Cats with Holly Hunter. On Broadway she played Nora Clitheroie in Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars and Lily Doherty in Brian Friel's The Freedom...
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  • The Shadow of a Gunman (category Plays by Seán O'Casey)
    The Shadow of a Gunman is a 1923 tragicomedy play by Seán O'Casey set during the Irish War of Independence. It centres on the mistaken identity of a building...
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    in Dublin. At public performances of The Plough and the Stars, the Seán O'Casey play which takes its name from the flag, riots were known to break out...
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    Seán O'Casey, author of such plays as Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars was a regular at An Stad during the early 20th century Seán T...
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    cinematic treatment". The production starred Rory Keenan as Alec Leamas, Agnes O'Casey as Elizabeth Gold and John Ramm as George Smiley. It was performed at Chichester...
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    the common people's experience and from their perspective. Others are Seán O'Casey, Pádraic Ó Conaire, Peadar O'Donnell, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, and Seosamh...
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    O'Ryan, were issued by the Irish Post Office. One of the last plays of Sean O'Casey, The Drums of Father Ned (1957) is set during the preparations for a...
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  • productions there. He is especially remembered for his work in the plays of Seán O'Casey. After living in Skerries in his early years, at age 10 he moved to Dublin...
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    nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for Seán O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock (2014). For her role in the film Nancy (2018),...
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    Western World (1955) - John Millington Synge The Bishop's Bonfire (1955) - Seán O'Casey Androcles and the Lion (1956) - George Bernard Shaw The Rising of the...
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  • The Plough and the Stars (film) (category Films based on works by Seán O'Casey)
    Preston Foster. It is based on the play of the same name written by Seán O'Casey. Nora Clitheroe runs a rooming house in Dublin while trying to avoid...
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