Sean O'Casey

Communists such as Sean O'Casey who was on the editorial board of the

Harry's Place 2008

The backbar showcased stained glass portraits of Irish writers through the ages: Jonathan Swift, Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey.

Salvadora Jackson Stone 2011

When in 1929 Sean O'Casey submitted his newest play, The Silver Tassie, at his usual stomping ground, the Abbey Theatre, co-founder W. B. Yeats looked it over and said a resounding no.

David Finkle: First Nighter: Sean O'Casey's Silver Tassie a Challenging Lincoln Center Festival Puzzle David Finkle 2011

When in 1929 Sean O'Casey submitted his newest play, The Silver Tassie, at his usual stomping ground, the Abbey Theatre, co-founder W. B. Yeats looked it over and said a resounding no.

David Finkle: First Nighter: Sean O'Casey's Silver Tassie a Challenging Lincoln Center Festival Puzzle David Finkle 2011

The Sean O'Casey play about a struggling family in 1920s Dublin runs through March 20 at WSC's new home at Artisphere in Rosslyn.

Backstage at Washington Shakespeare Company's 'Juno and the Paycock' 2011

When in 1929 Sean O'Casey submitted his newest play, The Silver Tassie, at his usual stomping ground, the Abbey Theatre, co-founder W. B. Yeats looked it over and said a resounding no.

David Finkle: First Nighter: Sean O'Casey's Silver Tassie a Challenging Lincoln Center Festival Puzzle David Finkle 2011

When in 1929 Sean O'Casey submitted his newest play, The Silver Tassie, at his usual stomping ground, the Abbey Theatre, co-founder W. B. Yeats looked it over and said a resounding no.

David Finkle: First Nighter: Sean O'Casey's Silver Tassie a Challenging Lincoln Center Festival Puzzle David Finkle 2011

When in 1929 Sean O'Casey submitted his newest play, The Silver Tassie, at his usual stomping ground, the Abbey Theatre, co-founder W. B. Yeats looked it over and said a resounding no.

David Finkle: First Nighter: Sean O'Casey's Silver Tassie a Challenging Lincoln Center Festival Puzzle David Finkle 2011

Sean, my father, was born in the Liberties of Dublin, the city's oldest neighbourhood, an enclave of fierce autonomies, near the stern black cathedral in which Jonathan Swift had thundered the gospel, near the slums of Sean O'Casey, those rookeries of the broken, near the house on Usher's Island in which the family in James Joyce's The Dead are gathered in the hope of epiphany.

Joseph O'Connor: 'It was a voice that opened worlds' 2010

But, honest to blog, it's not Diablo Cody's Juno, it's the 1924 play by Sean O'Casey.

Juno at the City Center (Not That Juno) 2008