Cock-a-doodle dandy / Sean O'Casey ; a production book compiled by James W. Gousseff. [1955]

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Cock-a-doodle dandy / Sean O'Casey ; a production book compiled by James W. Gousseff. [1955]

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Yale University Library

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Gousseff, James W.

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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...