Word: sean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sean O'Casey is an old man now, living alone England and far from Dublin, the city of his birth. His youth there was a time of violent action, set against the background of the bloody Irish up-risings of the first quarter of the 20th century. Most of his plays celebrate the events of that period and, in 1942, he once more returned vicariously to write a play about a Dublin strike that took place in 1913. But this play, Red Roses for Me, is less a drama than a ceremony of remembrance...
There were precious few horseplayers who thought much of Dr. Vogeler's investment. Among the foreign entries, the Irish Republic's President Sean T. O'Kelly's Derby Winner Panaslipper was the people's choice; Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Social Outcast was the homebred favorite. El Chama was an ill-favored long shot at about...
...experimental plays, the New Theatre Workshop has presented two "established" works, in order to arouse interest in its later student-written productions. The Twelve Pound Look, by J. M. Barrie, forms a delightful one-act entree. But it precedes a main dish that is not so tempting, for Sean O'Casey's Shadow of a Gunman is a confusing play. The chief trouble with this presentation is its selection in the first place. The acting, however, in both these productions is skillful...
...Theater Workshop will open its season today with two one-act plays: J. M. Barrie's "Twelve Pound Look" and Sean O'Casey's "The Shadow of a Gunman...
...crush the I.R.A. before its gunmen trigger real trouble in Northern Ireland. But it was doubtful whether Costello, who presides over a coalition government, is strong enough to do what De Valera had done. In Costello's Cabinet there are men who agree with ex-Foreign Minister Sean MacBride (son of the late famed Patriot Maud Gonne, and himself an old I.R.A. man) who said: "While the I.R.A. voices the national sentiment of the people, no Irish government would place itself in the position of fighting...