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The Plough and the Stars is a 1926 play by Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey, set in Dublin before and during the Easter Rising of 1916. Through residents of a tenement, it contrasts revolutionary rhetoric with poverty, fear, sectarian tension, and civilian suffering. Its Abbey Theatre premiere provoked...
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O'Casey classic with major Irish theatrical status and political force; riot history reinforces reputation.
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The Shadow of a Gunman is a 1923 play by Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey and the first work in his Dublin Trilogy. Set in a Dublin tenement during the Irish War of Independence, it follows poet Donal Davoren, whom other residents mistakenly believe to be an IRA gunman. First staged at the Abbey Theatre...
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Important O'Casey Dublin Trilogy opener, admired historically; less acclaimed than The Plough and the Stars.
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