But, our seats were perfect -- about 6th row center in this little 300 stadium-seat theater called the O'Casey, one of about 4 or 5 separate performing spaces that comprised the Mercer. From Wordnik.com. [Binky Philips: Opening for The New York Dolls at the Mercer Arts Center, December 19th, 1972] Reference
Or the theater minus Synge, O'Casey, Shaw or Beckett?. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Coming] Reference
During that period, the pickings were slim for the O'Casey family. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Riley punched up a reading of Sean O'Casey's minor works by a particularly gifted contemporary actress. From Wordnik.com. [Web of the Romulans] Reference
His story this month, "Monday, Sweet Monday," features Michael Knight, a character from the O'Casey series. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Rightly so: this play, set in a Glasgow tenement in the 1930s, reminds us what economic hardship really means, and yet has an ebullience that suggests a Scottish O'Casey. From Wordnik.com. [Men Should Weep - review] Reference
The only bit actually worth reading is a Sean O'Casey story, "The Raid", which didn't seem to me to have any supernatural element at all (unless you believe that randy Irish women are unnatural). From Wordnik.com. [January Books 17) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams] Reference
On the other hand, he wasn't much for wallowing in the Old Sod, had never been deeply stirred by the Troubles, had no allegiance at all to the IRA, "nor even any particular enthusiasm for Yeats or O'Casey.". From Wordnik.com. [The Black Album] Reference
However, some passages in it, we learn, "quite pleased" him, especially the chapter set in Trafalgar Square, dismissed by many (notably Sean O'Casey) as a poor pastiche of the Nighttown chapter in Joyce's Ulysses. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Orwell, ed Peter Davison] Reference
"He is one of the honourable heirs of Synge, O'Casey and the founders of the Abbey,". From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
O'Valle, a descendant of South Texas Irish immigrants, knew about O'Casey, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
I'll start an Irish House in Berlin, I will, and there'll be O'Casey and O'Ryan and O'Reilly and. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
"What is the banks?" the Sean O'Casey character Joxer Daly might have asked if he were around today. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
In 1960, Frawley landed the role of "Bub" O'Casey on "My Three Sons," which he starred in for six seasons before becoming too ill to work. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In the first decade of the 20th century, living Irish writers included Shaw, Wilde, Beckett, Synge, Joyce and O'Casey, whose works live on. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
O'Casey, who died in 1964 at the age of 84, continues to exert a fascination over her -- she wrote her master's thesis on his later, more obscure plays. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
Perhaps we will one day be startled again by Godfrey Daniel! or even the kind of creative flights to which linguistic prohibition could inspire O'Casey. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4] Reference
I'll start an Irish House in Berlin, I will, and there'll be O'Casey and O'Ryan and O'Reilly and O'Flarrety, and begod the King of England himself'll come an 'set the goddam. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
According to the Gardai it was all Dixon of dock green on Sean O'Casey avenue - something along the lines of 'the lads put their hands up and then we had a bit of chat on the way to the station' but most of the eyewitnesses talk about scuffles and shouting. From Wordnik.com. [Anarkismo.net] Reference
But the eight one-acts the Irish Rep is presenting are not only collectively irresistible as a look at Yeats 'determination to steep his audiences in the myths that simultaneously underlie national pride and national shame, but offer an opportunity to see the ground set for such future dramatists as Synge, O'Casey, and Beckett. From Wordnik.com. [TheaterMania.com] Reference
The wide variety of authors drawn on for the entries on literature adds to the interest (Colm Tóibín on Francis Stuart, for instance) - though, oddly, the adjacent entries on Sean O'Casey (by Robert Lowery) and on his wife Eileen (by Lawrence William White) give different dates and circumstances for how the couple met (the latter seeming more circumstantially exact). From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
In drama we have such writers as George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Lady Gregory and Synge. From Wordnik.com. [A Tourist's View of Ireland] Reference
4 Since I gave my lecture we have produced Juno and the Paycock by Mr. O'Casey, the greatest success we have had for years. From Wordnik.com. [William Butler Yeats - Nobel Lecture] Reference
(In this city that reveres writers there are bridges named after Beckett, Sean O'Casey and James Joyce -- a Calatrava design as well. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Winship: The Celtic Tiger, Declawed and Defanged] Reference
O'Casey) were present .... but I remembered one who wasn't. From Wordnik.com. [Politics.ie] Reference
Plumbing the depths: Irish realism and the working class from Shaw to O'Casey. (. From Wordnik.com. [infoplease - Daily Almanac] Reference
"I'll only ask you once more you only want to believe this man is looking for someone to hold him down he doesn't yet fully understand the meaning never heard about (Oscar Wilde) don't want know about (and Brendan Behan) don't think about (Shaun O'Casey) don't care about (George Bernard Shaw. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
(Oscar Wilde and Brendan Behan) don't think about (Shaun O'Casey) dont care about (George Bernard Shaw) oh (and Samuel Beckett) dont 'know about (Eugene O'Neil, Edna O'Brien) don't think about (and Laurence Sterne) now listen all these other people they don't mean a thing they're not listening to what you say makes no difference anyway if I knew it I would tell give you anything they're not listening what you say but you might just. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
O'Casey play the Abbey once rejected. From Wordnik.com. [The Stage / News Headlines] Reference
Sean O'Casey community centre in East Wall. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
O'Casey and. From Wordnik.com. [Angela's Ashes] Reference
"Mr. Doyle, my name's O'Casey.". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
"What happened out there, O'Casey?". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
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