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  1. The Shadow Of A Gunman by Seán O'Casey was premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on 12th April 1923. It is the first in O'Casey's "Dublin Trilogy" - the other two being Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the Stars (1926).

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #SeánOCasey #TheShadowOfAGunman #Dublin #OnThisDay

  2. Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh) was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin on 30th March 1880. He was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #SeánOCasey #Dublin #OnThisDay

  3. The first performance of Seán O'Casey's the Plough and the Stars took place at the Abbey theatre on 8 February 1926. The play was well received on its opening night. But on subsequent nights audience unrest began and on 11 February Cumann na mBan and Sinn Féin members rioted at perceived insults to the men who had died during the Rising.

    #SeánOCasey #ThePloughAndTheStars #AbbeyTheatre #Ireland #IrishTheatre #CumannNamBan #SinnFéin #EasterRising #OnThisDay

  4. The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907. It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in Mayo during the early 1900s. It tells the story of Christy Mahon, a young man running away from his farm, claiming he killed his father.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #ThePlayboyOfTheWesternWorld #JohnMillingtonSynge #AbbeyTheatre #Dublin #Mayo

  5. A interesting (well, to me at least) class/politically-based analysis of Seán O’Casey and his works.

    dannymorrison.com/ocasey-revis

    #Ireland #IrishTheatre #SeánOCasey

  6. Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh) died on 18 September 1964 at the age of 84. He was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #SeánOCasey #Dublin #OnThisDay

  7. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre. 2/2

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #JohnMillingtonSynge #IrishTheatre #AbbeyTheatre #ThePlayboyOfTheWesternWorld #OnThisDay

  8. John Millington Synge was born on 16th April in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, the youngest of eight children of upper-middle-class Protestant parents. He was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. 1/2

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #JohnMillingtonSynge #IrishTheatre #AbbeyTheatre #ThePlayboyOfTheWesternWorld #OnThisDay

  9. Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh) was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin on 30th March 1880. He was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #SeánOCasey #Dublin #OnThisDay

  10. Fuair John Millington Synge, drámadóir, file agus scríbhneoir bás ar 24 Márta 1909 in aois a 37 i mBaile Átha Cliath.

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    Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste ná Béarla cliste, ach bíonn Gaeilge chliste níos fearr arís. Ceartaigh mé.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #Gaeilge #IrishTheatre #JohnMillingtonSynge #OnThisDay

  11. Synge developed an interest in Irish antiquities and the Aran Islands, and became a member of the Irish League for a year. He left the League because, as he told Maud Gonne, "my theory of regeneration for Ireland differs from yours ... I wish to work on my own for the cause of Ireland, and I shall never be able to do so if I get mixed up with a revolutionary and semi-military movement." 2/2

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #JohnMillingtonSynge #OnThisDay

  12. John Millington Synge, playwright, poet, writer and collector of folklore, died on 24th March 1909 aged 37 of Hodgkin lymphoma in Dublin. Although he came from a wealthy Anglo-Irish background, his writings mainly concern working-class Catholics in rural Ireland. 1/2

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #JohnMillingtonSynge #OnThisDay

  13. The first performance of Seán O'Casey's the Plough and the Stars took place at the Abbey theatre on 8 February 1926. The play was well received on its opening night. But on subsequent nights audience unrest began and on 11 February Cumann na mBan and Sinn Féin members rioted at perceived insults to the men who had died during the Rising.

    #SeánOCasey #ThePloughAndTheStars #AbbeyTheatre #Ireland #IrishTheatre #CumannNamBan #SinnFéin #EasterRising #OnThisDay

  14. The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907. It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in Mayo during the early 1900s. It tells the story of Christy Mahon, a young man running away from his farm, claiming he killed his father.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #ThePlayboyOfTheWesternWorld #JohnMillingtonSynge #AbbeyTheatre #Dublin #Mayo

  15. Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh) died on 18 September 1964 at the age of 84. He was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #SeánOCasey #Dublin #OnThisDay

  16. His best known play The Playboy of the Western World was poorly received, due to its bleak ending, depiction of Irish peasants, and idealisation of parricide, leading to hostile audience reactions and riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre. 2/2

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #JohnMillingtonSynge #IrishTheatre #AbbeyTheatre #ThePlayboyOfTheWesternWorld #OnThisDay

  17. John Millington Synge was born on 16th April in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, the youngest of eight children of upper-middle-class Protestant parents. He was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore, and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. 1/2

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #JohnMillingtonSynge #IrishTheatre #AbbeyTheatre #ThePlayboyOfTheWesternWorld #OnThisDay

  18. Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh) was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin on 30th March 1880. He was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #SeánOCasey #Dublin #OnThisDay

  19. John Millington Synge, playwright, poet, writer and collector of folklore, died on 24th March 1909 of Hodgkin lymphoma aged 37.

    #Ireland #IrishTheatre #JohnMillingtonSynge #OnThisDay

  20. The first performance of Seán O'Casey's the Plough and the Stars took place at the Abbey theatre on 8 February 1926. The play was well received on its opening night. But on subsequent nights audience unrest began and on 11 February Cumann na mBan and Sinn Féin members rioted at perceived insults to the men who had died during the Rising.

    #SeánOCasey #ThePloughAndTheStars #AbbeyTheatre #Ireland #IrishTheatre #CumannNamBan #SinnFéin #EasterRising

  21. The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907. It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in Mayo during the early 1900s. It tells the story of Christy Mahon, a young man running away from his farm, claiming he killed his father.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishTheatre #ThePlayboyOfTheWesternWorld #JohnMillingtonSynge #AbbeyTheatre #Dublin #Mayo