Extract by Sean O'Casey



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As a leading member of a late-19th and early-20th century literary movement known as the Irish Renaissance, dramatist Sean O’Casey wrote plays about the social and political problems of Ireland. Born in the slums of Dublin, O’Casey expressed a sympathy for the Irish lower classes and his homeland’s struggle for independence. Set in the Dublin tenements before and during the Easter Rebellion of 1916, The Plough and the Stars (1926) paints a critical picture of the Irish people, condemning their rhetoric and bravado for its human costs (recited by an actor).

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Ireland, Republic of; Irish Literature; O'Casey, Sean; Drama and Dramatic Arts

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