SEAN O’CASEY

born in 1880 to a Protestant family in the slums of Dublin was an idealist whose views

were centered on socialist ideals

“ The world is a stage and most of us are

desperately unrehearsed.”

The Dublin TrilogyThree Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman Juno and the Paycock The Plough and the

Stars

The Shadow of a Gunman

Displayed the terrors of the Black and Tans in Dublin.

Juno and the Paycock

A family is to receive a large inheritance, starts spending frivolously, and loses sight of their values.

The Plough and the Stars

Focused on the Irish Citizen Army and the Easter Rising.

O’ Casey was an alleged communist who saw Keats, Dickens, Whitman, and even Jesus Christ as Communists.

“Any man who is honest and gives all he can to the community is a Communist,”

O’Casey said.

O’Casey died in 1964 of a heart attack in his home in England.

“I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometimes

terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song

in the other.”

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