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Sean O'Casey, under a coloured cap, a Green Crow Production for RTE ; produced with the cooperation of Ostar Enterprises, Inc. in association with Maysles Films, Inc. and Melin Films Group, Ltd. ; written & directed by Shivaun O'Casey ; written & produced by Mary Beth Yarrow

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Sean O'Casey, under a coloured cap

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a Green Crow Production for RTE ; produced with the cooperation of Ostar Enterprises, Inc. in association with Maysles Films, Inc. and Melin Films Group, Ltd. ; written & directed by Shivaun O'Casey ; written & produced by Mary Beth Yarrow

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This program paints an intimate and fascinating portrait of Sean O'Casey: a controversial playwright, a prolific memoirist, and one of the great figures of the Irish literary renaissance. Narrated and directed by Shivaun O'Casey, his daughter, the program profiles the renowned writer's life of hardship and triumph, idealism and disenchantment. Topics under discussion include O'Casey's grim formative years; his activities in various socialist movements and in the movements for Irish independence; his satiric and often violent tragicomedies The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars; and his later years in self-imposed exile in Britain

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Sean O'Casey and the Irish literary Renaissance