Word: sean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knock at the Door proves a thoroughly engaging reading version of the first volume of Sean O'Casey's full-flavored autobiography. In an arrangement by Paul Shyre, six people seated in front of lecterns recount a late Victorian Dublin childhood that ends when a twelve-year-old boy has "learned poetry and . . . kissed a girl." The boy was not just any Dublin child-beyond the gifted writer he would some day be, he was threatened with blindness; and in a shabby and fiercely Protestant home was watching his father...
...already hard-beset mother was caught between the doctor's strict orders that the child be kept out of doors and the rector's badgering insistence that he go to school, Sunday school and church. The climax of childhood comes with Sean being caned at school and rebelliously striking back...
When, eight years ago, Sean Michael Cloney, 22, a Roman Catholic farmer, married Sheila Kelly, 22, Protestant, in London, she made the usual agreement imposed by the Catholic Church on mixed marriages: the children would be brought up as Catholics. Sean brought Sheila back to his big brown farmhouse called Dungulph Castle, a 600-year-old rebuilt Norman mansion in the southern county of Wexford, two miles from the village of Fethard...
Unphair to Protestants. One day last April, while Sean worked in his fields, Sheila bundled their two children into the car and drove off. Later, a Belfast barrister turned up at Dungulph Castle with Sheila's terms for coming back: Cloney must sell the farm, move to Canada or Australia, agree to let the children be raised as Protestants. Cloney got a conditional order for a writ of habeas corpus for his children's return, and waited...
Peace? Back at the village, Farmer Sean Cloney was having a worse time of it than ever. Insisting that Fethard's Protestants had had nothing to do with his wife's departure, he had continued to patronize their shops and services, found himself shunned by many villagers as a result...