Sean O`Casey
The first production in 1926 of The Plough and the Stars at Dublin`s Abbey Theatre met with rioting in the streets, as a result of the play`s (wrongly) alleged anti-Irish sentiment. Still, it remains one of the great classics not only of Irish drama but of the twentieth century. The Shadow of a Gunman was O`Casey`s first play and established his relationship with the Abbey Theatre, a centerpiece of the Irish Renaissance. The Silver Tassie, Purple Dust and Hall of Healing are from among his later works.

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