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.
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.
James Connolly was an Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains an important figure both for the Irish labour movement and for Irish republicanism.
Connolly addresses a crowd of 8,000, New York City, May Day, 1908
Belfast mill workers early 1900s
Dublin Metropolitan Police break up a union rally