Sean O Casey

So much Irish cultural debate is fixated on the idea of commemoration, and as the celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of WB Yeats’s birth come (...)

Results Friday (December 4th) Sotheby’s, New York. A manuscript draft of Juno and the Paycock by Sean O’Casey, $187,500 ($200,000-$ 300,000). Wedne(...)

A handwritten draft of Seán O’Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock has been valued at up to $300,000 (€280,000) ahead of an auction in New York on Friday(...)

In the foyer of the Abbey Theatre a small plaque commemorates the staff and company members who participated in the 1916 Rising. Of the seven names(...)

The Abbey will “interrogate rather than celebrate” the legacy of the Easter Rising, its director Senator Fiach Mac Conghail said while announcing a pr(...)

Sean O’Casey lived across the road from 15 Hawthorn Terrace between 1889 until 1897. He was 17 when he left, old enough to appreciate the community(...)

The history of recent conflict in Ireland is usually traced to the early years of the twentieth century, and the key figure who determined the way (...)

The Night Alive Gaiety Theatre *** It isn’t a promising refuge, this ground floor flat in Dublin, a high ceilinged haven now drowning in dirt and de(...)

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi arrives in Dublin on Wednesday for the first visit to Ireland by an Indian leader in more than half a century. Mo(...)

Before he made his name as a poet WB Yeats was a prolific journalist, contributing to dozens of newspapers, magazines and periodicals on matters of(...)