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Sean O’Casey’s last residence at 422 North Circular Road, Dublin. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Sabina Higgins leads charge for arts centre at Sean O’Casey house

Sabina Higgins is rallying support for the former home of playwright Sean O’Casey to be turned into a “cultural arts centre”. In a letter to academic(...)

The house had gone on the market in 2018 for €450,000 but was recently offered for sale for €625,000 despite its condition having deteriorated in the intervening years. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
Seán O’Casey’s house to be bought by Dublin City Council

Dublin City Council has revived plans to buy the former home of playwright Seán O’Casey in Dublin’s north inner city. In March of last year the counc(...)

The exterior of 422 North Circular Road, playwright Seán O’Casey’s last residence. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
Plan to buy Seán O’Casey house for homeless shelved due to funding issues

The purchase of the last Dublin home of playwright Sean O’Casey by Dublin City Council is unlikely to go ahead, due to Coronavirus funding constraints(...)

Shivaun O’Casey, daughter of playwright Sean O’Casey, with her granddaughter Agnes O’Casey. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Use of Sean O’Casey house for homeless gets family seal of approval

The room in the Georgian house on the North Circular Road in Dublin where her father wrote his best-known works, including The Shadow of a Gunman, Jun(...)