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Sean O’Casey

Seán O'Casey
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Seán O'Casey
Born John Casey
(1880-03-30)30 March 1880
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Died 18 September 1964(1964-09-18) (aged 84)
Torquay, Devon, England
Pen name Seán Ó Cathasaigh
Occupation Dramatist
Language English
Nationality Irish
Spouse Eileen Carey Reynolds (m. 1927–64)
Children Breon O'Casey, Niall, Shivaun

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Seán O'Casey (/ˈʃɔːn ˈks/; Irish: Seán Ó Cathasaigh, Irish pronunciation: [ˈʃaːn̪ˠoːˈkahəsˠiː]; 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. His family background was "shabby genteel", and not, as often assumed, the working-class culture in which his plays are set. His parents were Protestants and he was a member of the Church of Ireland, baptised on 28 July 1880 in St. Mary's parish, confirmed at St John the Baptist Church in Clontarf, and an active member of Saint Barnabas until his mid-twenties, when he drifted away from the church.

O'Casey's father died when Seán was just six years of age, leaving a family of thirteen. The family lived a peripatetic life thereafter, moving from house to house around north Dublin. As a child, he suffered from poor eyesight, which interfered somewhat with his early education, but O'Casey taught himself to read and write by the age of thirteen.

He left school at fourteen and worked at a variety of jobs, including a nine-year period as a railwayman on the GNR. O'Casey worked in Eason's for a short while, in the newspaper distribution business, but was sacked for not taking off his cap when collecting his wage packet.


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