Seán O'Casey (Irish: Seán Ó Cathasaigh ; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes. O'Casey was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, as John Casey, the son of Michael Casey, a mercantile clerk, and Susan Archer

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Sean O'Casey: Sean O’Casey, Irish playwright renowned for realistic dramas of the Dublin slums in war and revolution, in which tragedy and comedy are juxtaposed in a way new to the theatre of his time. O’Casey was born into a lower middle-class Irish Protestant family. His father died when John was six, and thereafter the family became progressively poorer. With only three years of formal schooling, he educated himself by reading. He started work at 14, mostly at manual labour, including several years with the Irish railways. O’Casey would later exaggerate the hardships and poverty he had experienced during childhood. O’Casey became caught up in the cause of Irish nationalism, and he changed his name to its Irish form and learned Gaelic.

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Se?O'Casey was the quintessential Dublin playwright. Christopher Murray's Se?O'Casey: Writer at Work takes a fresh look at the last of the great writers of the Irish literary revival. I am always struck when readingAntony and Cleopatraby a soaring passage in which Cleopatra, conscious of her audience, sees the dead Antony in mythic dimensions: His face was as the heavens, and therein stuck. A sun and moon His legs bestrid the ocean, his rear’d arm. Crested the world: his voice was propertied. As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends

Sean O'Casey was born John Casey on March 30, 1880, at 85 Upper Dorset Street in Dublin, Ireland to Michael and Susan Casey. His father was a mercantile clerk, but died when O'Casey was 6 years old. The Casey family drifted from house to house in northern Dublin thereafter. O'Casey suffered from poor eyesight as a child and struggled in school, but had taught himself to read and write by the time he was 13 years old. He quit school at age 14 to work a variety of odd jobs. O'Casey gradually developed a passionate interest in the Irish Nationalist cause. He Gaelicised his name from John Casey to Seán Ó Cathasaigh. He joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood and participated in the Dublin Lockout, a dispute between workers and employers over the right to unionize.

Krause, Sean O’Casey and His World, 1976) His father, a commercial clerk, died of a spinal injury when John was six, and the boy himself suffered from a painful chronic eye disease that marred his childhood and prevented him from going to school regularly.

Sean O'Casey (shôn), 1884–1964, Irish dramatist, one of the great figures of the Irish literary renaissance. A Protestant, he grew up in the slum district of Dublin and was active in various socialist movements and in the rebellions for Irish independence. These grim, satiric, and often violent tragicomedies are usually considered O'Casey's most brilliant works