 The run of the play was not interrupted and after a year of legal argument the judge threw out the case.Seán O'Casey's play "The Drums of Father Ned" was supposed to go up at the 1958 Dublin Theatre Festival, but the Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid refused to give his blessing (it has been assumed because works of both James Joyce and O'Casey were in the Festival).After Joyce's play was quietly dropped, there was massive changes required for "The Drums of Father Ned", a devious way to get O'Casey to drop.