Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well, the fourth volume of his third-person autobiography,* is essentially an arrangement of O'Casey's counter-compliments to the Irish reviewers, clerics and laymen who refused to take him on those terms...
INISHFALLEN, FARE THEE WELL (396 pp.) -Sean O'Casey-Macmillan...
...slum dramatist, a guttersnipe who could jingle a few words together." That was how Playwright Sean O'Casey (The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock) summarized what much of the Irish press said of him and his works. Absolutely correct, agrees O'Casey-and proud of it. He promises to spend his whole life wearing "the tattered badge of [his proletarian] tribe . . . soiled with the diseased sweat of the tenements...
...Black & Tans. The free-for-alls of O'Casey's Volume IV are set in the years when Eire was finally obtaining her independence. Black & Tans roar through Dublin in armored cars, Irish rebels fight them off shoulder to shoulder-and, after defeating them, turn their ferocity against one another. The air is full of flying shillelaghs, ecclesiastical croziers, broken staves of office, and splintering scepters. But olive branches are missing from the scene and O'Casey, parodying Yeats, chants sarcastically...
Pentagonal League individual scoring leaders: Casey (Brown), W. Riley (Dartmouth), five goals: Garrity (Harvard), J. Riley (Dartmouth), Priestly (Brown), four goals; Kittredge (Harvard), Malo (Brown), Carman (Harvard), Copeland (Brown), Huntington (Harvard), Harrison (Dartmouth), three goals...