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...

descent; the playwright Seán O'Casey was her great-grandfather. Her paternal grandfather was of Lithuanian-Jewish heritage. O'Casey has dyslexia and attended...

Seán O'Casey Bridge (Irish: Droichead Sheáin Uí Chathasaigh) is a pedestrian swingbridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, joining City Quay...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

and Jack White on 23 November 1913. Other prominent members included Seán O'Casey, Constance Markievicz, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, P. T. Daly and Kit...

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...

Year Title Playwright Venue 1967 Shadow of a Gunman Sean O'Casey The Mermaid Theatre, London 1969 Captain Oates' Left Sock John Antrobus Royal Court Theatre...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

community cultural centre, The Sean O'Casey Centre, which is named after one of its most famous past residents, Seán O'Casey. New businesses have located...

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),...

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...

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...

noted representation of this cultural group is Bessie Burgess in the Seán O'Casey play The Plough and the Stars). In the chorus, the composer is pejoratively...

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...

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...

Other authors that have used Kathleen Ni Houlihan in some way include Seán O'Casey (especially in The Shadow of the Gunman) and James Joyce who introduces...

leading Irish playwrights, including William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, Seán O'Casey and John Millington Synge, as well as leading actors. In addition, through...

major Irish dramatist whose work influenced the plays of W. B. Yeats and Sean O'Casey. The Wayward Man was among the first novels to explore the character...

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...