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 • Nov. 30, 2023

O’Casey brings a feistiness and a gentle sorrow to Dolly, desperately yearning to hear her son speak.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2023

"Sometimes he’d fall asleep in the middle of a scene," Considine recalled, adding that the writers made sure Frawley’s character "Bub" O’Casey was standing and doing something, such as sweeping the floor.

From Fox News • Feb. 16, 2022

O’Casey, a luminary of the Anglo-Irish renaissance, was a satiro-comic writer with a big-time dark side and an enduring faith in human self-deception.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2019

You can hear plays by O’Casey, Shaw, Ibsen and Shakespeare himself, the best of all, even if he is English.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

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