Tag Archive: Sean O’Casey autobiography

Apr 24

“A RARE TIME FOR DEATH…” – Sean O’Casey and the Easter Rising

"A company o’ throttin’ lancers ..."

O’Casey was not just one of Irelands greatest playwrights, he also wrote a large amount of other material, including six volumes of autobiography. In these edited extracts, we look at his own experiences during Easter week 1916. Despite his earlier involvement with many of the revolutionary movements in the city,  O’Casey was a non-combatant in …

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Sep 13

Sean O’Casey , the Hawthorn and the ‘Dung Dodgers’

01 25 Hawthorn Terrace

“I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did , the panorama of the world I lived in- the things that made me.”    Sean O’Casey (1948)   Between 1939 and 1955 Sean O’Casey published six volumes of Autobiography. The first three in particular …

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Sep 07

Sean O’Casey, shopping with his Ma, and feckin’ the bacon & eggs

04 earl street

“I thought that no man liveth and dieth to himself, so I put behind what I thought and what I did , the panorama of the world I lived in- the things that made me.”    Sean O’Casey (1948)   Between 1939 and 1955 Sean O’Casey published six volumes of Autobiography. The first three in particular …

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