Seán O'Casey (Irish: Seán Ã" Cathasaigh [ˈʃaË nÌªË oË ËˆkahÉ™sË
iË ]; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 â€" 18 September 1964) was an
Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first
Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working
classes.O'Casey was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, as John
Casey, the son of Michael Casey, a mercantile clerk (who worked for
the Irish Church Missions), and Susan Archer.[1] His parents were
Protestants and he was a member of the Church of Ireland, baptised on
28 July 1880 in St. Mary's parish,[2] confirmed at St John the Baptist
Church in Clontarf,[3] and an active member of St Barnabas' church at
the North Wall quay[4] until his mid-20s,[3] when he drifted away from
the church. There is a church called 'Saint Burnupus' in his play Red
Roses For Me.O'Casey's father died when Seán was just six years of
age, leaving a family of thirteen.[3] The family lived a peripatetic
life thereafter, moving from house to house around north Dublin. As a
child, he suffered from poor eyesight, which interfered somewhat with
his early education, but O'Casey taught himself to read and write by
the age of thirteen.
iË ]; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 â€" 18 September 1964) was an
Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first
Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working
classes.O'Casey was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, as John
Casey, the son of Michael Casey, a mercantile clerk (who worked for
the Irish Church Missions), and Susan Archer.[1] His parents were
Protestants and he was a member of the Church of Ireland, baptised on
28 July 1880 in St. Mary's parish,[2] confirmed at St John the Baptist
Church in Clontarf,[3] and an active member of St Barnabas' church at
the North Wall quay[4] until his mid-20s,[3] when he drifted away from
the church. There is a church called 'Saint Burnupus' in his play Red
Roses For Me.O'Casey's father died when Seán was just six years of
age, leaving a family of thirteen.[3] The family lived a peripatetic
life thereafter, moving from house to house around north Dublin. As a
child, he suffered from poor eyesight, which interfered somewhat with
his early education, but O'Casey taught himself to read and write by
the age of thirteen.
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