Seán O'Casey
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Seán O'Casey was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
No. 422 North Circular Road, the house where O'Casey wrote the Dublin trilogy
Study of Seán O'Casey by Dublin artist Reginald Gray, for The New York Times (1966)
Seán O'Casey's childhood home. Upper Dorset Street, Dublin
No. 9 Innisfallen Parade, Dublin. Seán O'Casey lived here from 1882 to 1888.
Abbey Theatre
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The Abbey Theatre, also known as the National Theatre of Ireland, in Dublin, Ireland, is one of the country's leading cultural institutions. First opening to the public on 27 December 1904, and moved from its original building after a fire in 1951, it has remained active to the present day. The Abbey was the first state-subsidized theatre in the English-speaking world; from 1925 onwards it received an annual subsidy from the Irish Free State. Since July 1966, the Abbey has been located at 26 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1.
Front façade
A poster for the opening run at the Abbey Theatre from 27 December 1904 to 3 January 1905
Lady Gregory pictured on the frontispiece to Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography (1913)
John Millington Synge, author of The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots at the Abbey on the play's opening night