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Thu 08 Aug 2010Storm in a tassie: the playwright, the poet and the Abbey Theatre
As Seán O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie opens in Galway, Sara Keatingexamines the Abbey Theatre’s rejection of the play in 1928 – a move that led to a bitter public row in the pages of The Irish Timesbetween O’Casey and WB Yeats
‘YOU HAVE disgraced yourselves again,” WB Yeats reprimanded the audience at the Abbey Theatre on February 11th, 1926, as Sinn Féiner’s booed and cursed Sean O’Casey’s play The Plough and the Stars, which they found deeply offensive to the memory of those who died in the 1916 Rising.
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