SEAN O CASEY

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• Sean o casey was an irish dramtist, memoirist
• and committed socialist.
• He was the first Irish pkaywright to write about
• the Dublin working classes

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• It is thought that he grew up in
• A working class societ
• - where most of his plays are set
• His father died when he was six
• Leaving a family of thirteen

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• He left school at fourteen and
• Worked in many idfferent places
• Railway man on GNR
• Easons
• Newspaper distribution

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• From the early 1890s, he and his brother
• Put on performances of plays by
• Dion Boucicault and William Shakespeare.
• He got a small part in "the shaughraun" in
• The mechanics theatre (abbey theatre)

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• His interest in irish nationalists
• Grew and he joined the gaelic
• League in 1906 and learned irish
• He was the founder of st. Laurence o toole
• Pipe band

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• He joined the IRB
• Became involved in the irish transport
• And general workers union, est. by
• Jim larkin.
• He participated in the dublin lock out

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• He became the general secretary of
• The irish citizen army
• He reseigned from ICA in 1914

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• In 1917 his friend thomas ashe
• Died during a hunger strike
• Inspired to write
• Two laments

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• He spent the next five years writing
• Plays
• His first accepted play "shadow of a gunman"
• Was performed at the abbey theatre
• 1926 - plough and stars first performed