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SEAN O'CASEY
Sean O’Casey Links
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
Sean O’Casey

Extracts from The Story of the Citizen Army (1919)
Online extracts from O’Casey’s The Story of the Citizen Army. Requires username and password.

Irish Writers Online – O’Casey
Brief biographies of Irish writers with information on their own works.

O’Casey, Sean – Princess Grace Irish Library 

Biography in the Princess Grace Irish Library ( Monaco ) Electronic Irish Records Dataset.  This site is under construction and it requires a user name and a pass word.

Sean O'Casey Biography
Biography from the Irish Cultural Society of the Garden City Area. Sean O'Casey, a child of the Dublin slums, was born in 1880 to a Protestant family. He had a grim childhood of poverty.  This site contains various links, including links to his plays.

Sean O'Casey’s Life and Works
This site contains a chronology of the life of Sean O’Casey and a list of his works.

Sean O'Casey and Ireland's Easter Rising
This site contains a discussion of Sean O’Casey’s political drama, “The Plough and the Stars”.  This play was first staged in the newly independent Ireland in 1926 at the Abbey Theatre. The play offered a satirical depiction of the foundational event of the Irish state, the Easter Rising of 1916, and brought about scenes not witnessed in Dublin since the riots nineteen years earlier during the production of “Playboy of the Western World” by J.M. Synge.

The Guide to World Drama
Lists and summaries of the works and letters of Sean O'Casey.

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