Sean O'Casey
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This article provides guidelines for understanding Irish socialist playwright Sean O'Casey as a disabled author, through analysis of the first volume of his autobiography, _I Knock at the Door_ (1939). The narrative describes the author’s... more
"The Rising of the Moon" and "Juno and the Paycock" were performed on the same stage a mere seventeen years apart, and yet these two plays present drastically different images of Irish patriotism and nationalism.
This essay examines Belfast- and Dublin-set realism of the early twentieth century. Considering a mix of literatures--including the pre-Wake fiction of James Joyce, short- and long-fiction of Liam O’Flaherty, and the Dublin Trilogy of... more
This explores Abbey plays set in Irish cities, from its founding through the summer of 1951. It seeks to broaden the discourse on modern Anglo-Irish drama generally, and at the Abbey Theatre specifically. It shows that although the urban... more
As discussed in much current scholarship, the root of which may be traced to Edward Said's Orientalism, language and writing are intimately involved in the construction and implementation of both representations of reality (both on and... more