Sean O'Casey letters, 1946-1969 (bulk 1955-1956).

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Sean O'Casey letters, 1946-1969 (bulk 1955-1956).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32944473

Autographed and typed letters to and from O'Casey. Most of the correspondence is with Donald Burke, a foreign correspondent of LIFE magazine. This correspondence relates to business and personal matters. There are also letters between O'Casey and Sheila Green of the Irish Labor Party, and Marvin Magalaner, concerning James Joyce. Additionally, the nine letters to theatre director John O'Shaughnessy are from O'Casey, his wife Eileen and son Breon.

36 items (1 box).

Boston College. John J. Burns Library

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Magalaner, Marvin, 1920-....

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O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964

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Sean O'Casey was born John Casey on March 30, 1880 in Dublin, Ireland, to Michael and Susan (Archer) Casey, a lower-middle class Protestant family. His father died in 1886. As a child, O'Casey suffered from trachoma, which affected his sight and made it difficult for him to succeed scholastically. He worked periodically throughout his adolescence as a stock boy, a van driver, and railway laborer. During this time, he became interested in Irish working class culture, as well as socialism and labo...

Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...

Burke, Donald J., 1931-

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O'Casey, Eileen.

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O'Casey, Breon, 1928-2011

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O'Shaughnesy, John.

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Green, Sheila, 1950-

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