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O'Casey

American

[oh-key-see] / oʊˈkeɪ si /

noun

Sean 1880–1964, Irish playwright.

O'Casey British

/ əʊˈkeɪsɪ /

noun

Sean (ʃɔːn). 1880–1964, Irish dramatist. His plays include Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the Stars (1926), which are realistic pictures of Dublin slum life

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The Pogues' album, Red Roses for Me, is named after a Sean O'Casey play.

From BBC

Ms Hynes won the award for the Druid Theatre production of DruidO'Casey - a trilogy of stories written by Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey.

From BBC

A 32-year-old man was shot once in the leg on a grassed area near O'Casey Court.

From BBC

It's a characterization that stops short of being comic but has some of the same bluster and blunder one finds in the characters of Synge and O'Casey.

From Los Angeles Times

Vicki Mortimer, designer of the new production of The Silver Tassie at the National Theatre, says audiences often have a clear idea of how they think a Sean O'Casey play should look.

From BBC

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