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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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  • 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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    Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Hiberno-English, is a masculine given name of Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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...
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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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    the record The Green Crow Caws, a musical celebration of the words of Seán O'Casey. John Kavanagh is the father of actress Rachel Kavanagh and musician...
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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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    response to the arming of Ulster Unionism. Secretary to the ICA Council, Seán O'Casey, described the formation of the Irish Volunteers as "one of the most...
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  • the genitive case, e.g. Seán Ó Cathasaigh (Seán O'Casey), son of Pól, son of Séamus, would be known to his neighbours as Seán Phóil Shéamuis. Occasionally...
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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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    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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    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...
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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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    leading Irish playwrights, including William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, Seán O'Casey and John Millington Synge, as well as leading actors. In addition, through...
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  • Cock-a-Doodle Dandy (category Plays by Seán O'Casey)
    Cock-a-Doodle Dandy is a 1949 play by Irish dramatist Seán O'Casey. Regarded by O'Casey as his best play, this is a darkly comic fantasy in which a magic...
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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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  • Abbey Theatre, Dublin – – The Plough and the Stars Mrs Gogan Ben Barnes Seán O'Casey Abbey Theatre, Barbicanbite and Cork Opera House – – The Playboy of the...
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