Sean O'Casey: Writer at Work - A Biography

✍ Scribed by Christopher Murray

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 639
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Se?O'Casey was the quintessential Dublin playwright. In critical works that include his Dublin Trilogy - The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars - he portrayed the traumatic birth of a nation and delved into the Irish national character. 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
PRECONCEPTION(S)
PART 1 FIRST THINGS
1 Beginnings
2 Seeing Things
3 'Give Me That Old Style Religion!'
4 To Make Eternal Silence Speak'
5 Under Which Flag?
PART 2 THE DUBLIN PLAYS
6 Love Among the Ruins
7 Going Through the Mill
8 Telling It Like It Is
9 'I Banish You!'
PART 3 LONDON – NEW YORK – LONDON
10 London Lights and The Silver Tassie
11 Trapped Inside the Gates?
12 'Beside the Golden Door'
PART 4 TOUGHING IT OUT IN DEVON
13 O'Casey's Good War
14 Oak Leaves and Lavender
15 Cock-a-Doodle Dandy
16 The Road to Torquay
PART 5 LAST THINGS
17 The Writer's Not for Burning
18 A Death in the Family
19 The Drums of Archbishop McQuaid
20 Something of a Renaissance
21 Talking to God
AFTERLIFE
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z