Word: sean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Shadow and Substance is too measured, too lacking in poetic vitality to rank with the best dramas of J. M. Synge and Sean O'Casey, it is likely to be a permanent addition to Irish literature, is surely as good a play as Broadway will see this year...
...Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars," to be performed the rest of this week, concludes the engagement of the Abbey Theatre Players in Boston. Strongly resembling "June and the Paycock," it is a still grimmer indictment of war, a more tragic display of how human values are broken and lost when men die for a cause. The setting is the Easter uprising of 1916. It is again a woman who tries to salvage something from the torrent of destruction, but this time she falls and ends in madness. No one wins anything, in fact, except that...
...Juno and the Paycock" again stimulates Boston audiences with its candid humor soon lost in trenchant satire and irony, and capped by unmitigated and all-pervasive tragedy. Sean O'Casey has chosen 1922 for his grim picture, when much of the actual fighting in Ireland was over, but men were known for their deeds and their sympathies. He sets up a family from the slums of Dublin, and through them he lashes at principles stubbornly adhered to only because they are principles, the folly of romantic and aimless sacrifice, the spirit of brotherly love and humanity that fails as soon...
...King. It provides for the election of a President having somewhat the ornamental powers of the President of France, with most of the executive job being done, as in France, by a Premier. In Dublin last week Mr. de Valera was said to want his trusty henchman Sean T. O'Kelly elected President, himself to become Premier...
...Labor Office, offshoot of the League of Nations. Present at this year's session were 97 Government delegates, 36 employers' delegates, 35 workers' delegates, 247 technical advisers, who had gathered from 51 countries to talk about world labor problems under the presidency of 37-year-old Sean Lemass, Minister of Industry & Commerce in the Irish Free State...