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Seán O'Casey

Born

in Dublin, Ireland

March 30, 1880

Died

September 18, 1964

Genre

Theater, Biographies & Memoirs

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Sean O'Casey was born in 1880 and lived through a bitterly hard boyhood in a Dublin tenement house. He never went to school but received most of his education in the streets of Dublin, and taught himself to read at the age of fourteen. He was successively a newspaper-seller, docker, stone-breaker, railway-worker and builders' labourer. In 1913 he helped to organise the Irish Citizen Army which fought in the streets of Dublin, and at the same time he was learning his dramatic technique by reading Shakespeare and watching the plays of Dion Boucicault. His early works were performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and Lady Gregory made him welcome at Coole, but disagreement followed and after visiting America in the late thirties O'Casey settled ...more

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	Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars 3.96 avg rating — 1,685 ratings — published 1969 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Juno And the Paycock by Seán O'Casey, William-Alan Landes (Editor) 3.63 avg rating — 1,341 ratings — published 1924 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Plough and the Stars by Seán O'Casey, Christopher Murray (Contributor) 3.62 avg rating — 1,021 ratings — published 1926 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow of a Gunman 3.68 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 1923 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Tassie 3.52 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1928 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Roses for Me 2.83 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1944 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sean O'Casey - Autobiographies: I Knock at the Door ; Pictures in the Hallway ; Drums Under the Windows 4.26 avg rating — 34 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sean O'Casey: Plays 1: Juno and the Paycock; Within the Gates; Red Roses For Me; Cock-A-Doodle Dandy by Seán O'Casey, Seamus Heaney (Introduction) 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Knock at the Door by Seán O'Casey, Paul Shyre (Adapter) 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1949 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	جنيه يدفع عند الطلب by Seán O'Casey, شون أوكاسي 2.07 avg rating — 41 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

tags: joy, laughter

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“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
― Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

tags: hope, sun

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“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
― Seán O'Casey

tags: destiny, drama, fate, humanity, humankind, humor, life, stage, theater, world

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