A Dublin festival honoring the great playwright Seán O'Casey is "capturing working class life in its rawest form". The Seán O'Casey Festival celebrates one of the first Irish playwrights of note ...

In 1928, Sean O’Casey presented a copy of his latest play, The Silver Tassie, to the London impresario Sir Barry Jackson. Jackson wouldn’t stage it. “You’ve written a fine play, a terrible ...

INISHFALLEN, FARE THEE WELL (396 pp.) —Sean O’Casey—Macmillan ($4.75). “A slum dramatist, a guttersnipe who could jingle a few words together.” That was how Playwright Sean O’Casey ...

Set against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, and by turns tragic and comic, O’Casey’s The Shadow of a Gunman is the tale of an ambitious young woman who dreams of a life bey ...