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Vinony's link graph records 750 inbound references to Seán O'Casey, and connects out to Irish rebel song, James Larkin and Peadar Kearney.
Vinony files it under 1880 births, 1964 deaths and 20th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights.
Vinony links it to 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Film & TV
Known for
- Cradle of Genius — Self1960
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- John Casey , ( 1880-03-30 ) 30 March 1880, Dublin , County Dublin , Ireland
- Died
- 18 September 1964 (1964-09-18) (aged 84), Torquay , Devon , England
- Pen name
- Seán Ó Cathasaigh
- Occupation
- Dramatist
- Language
- English
- Spouse
- Eileen Carey Reynolds ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1927 )
- Children
- Breon O'Casey , Niall, Shivaun
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sean
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Dublin
- Place of death
- Torquay
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- primary school
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Irish
- Genre
- tragicomedy
- Official website
- www.seanocasey.co.uk
- Image
- Sean ocasey 1924.jpg
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- P8168
- Alberto Medina
- birth name
- John Casey
- Commons category
- Sean O'Casey
- date of birth
- 1880-03-30
- date of death
- 1964-09-18
- member of
- Conradh na Gaeilge
- archives at
- Harry Ransom Center
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- cause of death
- disease
- name in kana
- ショーン・オケーシー
- place of burial
- Golders Green Crematorium
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Seán Ó Cathasaigh
- P12749
- 1989 SummerSlam
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (9)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Seán O'Casey, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~20 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Seán O'Casey (Irish: Seán Ó Cathasaigh [ˈʃaːn̪ˠ oː ˈkahəsˠiː]; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the struggles and experiences of the working class in Dublin. He is best known for his "Dublin Trilogy", which includes The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the Stars (1926).
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Seán O'Casey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.