Who was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes, Colson Whitehead or Seán O'Casey ?
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Seán O'Casey Seán O'Casey ( ; Irish: "Seán Ó Cathasaigh" , ] ; born John Casey, 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
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Colson Whitehead Colson Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of six novels, including his debut work, the 1999 novel "The Intuitionist", and "The Underground Railroad" (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship ("Genius Grant").
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Frank Allen (playwright) Frank Allen is a Dublin born playwright, screenwriter, director and teacher. His latest work, Twelve Days in May was shown at the Liberty Hall Dublin during November 2009. The play is about the last twelve days of James Connolly. Allen has completed a screenplay for a movie about the life of James Connolly with film producer Tom Stokes.
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Muirgheis Muirgheis is a 1903 opera by Thomas O'Brien Butler (1861–1915), written originally in the Irish language. Caving to market and political pressures of the time, the piece was mainly staged in English. Nonetheless, some consider it the first Gaeilge opera.
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Drama at Inish Drama at Inish is a comic play by the Irish writer Lennox Robinson which was first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on 6 February 1933. The storyline of the play serves as a parody of the plots and atmosphere of the plays being performed within it.
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Krapp's Last Tape Krapp's Last Tape is a one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett. With a cast of one man, it was written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee and first titled "Magee monologue". It was inspired by Beckett's experience of listening
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Mark Colvin's Kidney Mark Colvin's Kidney is a stage play by playwright Tommy Murphy.
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Billy Roche Billy Roche (born 11 January 1949) is an Irish playwright and actor. He was born and still lives in Wexford and most of his writings are based there. Originally a singer with The Roach Band, he turned to writing in the 1980s. He has written a number of plays, including The Wexford Trilogy. He has also written screenplay of "Trojan Eddie" and published a novel, "Tumbling Down", and a book of short stories.
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Seán Mór Seoighe Seán Mór Seoighe (fl. 1680) was an Irish steward, stonemason, and builder. He was the ancestor of many of the Joyce families of County Kerry, County Limerick, and County Cork, including that of the author James Joyce, Patrick Weston Joyce and Robert Dwyer Joyce.
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Eva O'Connor Eva O'Connor is an Irish stage actress and playwright.
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Seán Nolan Seán Nolan was an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) to the 2nd Dáil at the 1921 elections for the Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West constituency. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it. He stood as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin candidate at the 1922 general election but was not elected.
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The Tinker's Wedding The Tinker's Wedding is a two-act play by the Irish playwright J. M. Synge, whose main characters - as the title suggests - are Irish Tinkers. It is set on a roadside near a chapel in rural Ireland and premiered 11 November 1909.
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William Patrick Ryan William Patrick Ryan (1867 – 1942), was an Irish author and journalist.
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The Field (play) The Field is a play written by John B. Keane, first performed in 1965. It tells the story of the hardened Irish farmer "Bull" McCabe and his love for the land he rents. The play debuted at Dublin's Olympia Theatre in 1965, with Ray McAnally as "The Bull" and Eamon Keane as "The Bird" O'Donnell. The play was published in 1966 by Mercier Press. A new version with some changes was produced in 1987.
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Seán Ryan (politician) Seán Ryan (born 27 January 1943) is a former Irish Labour Party politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin North from 1989 to 1997 and 1998 to 2007.
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Máirtín Ó Direáin Máirtín Ó Direáin (] ; 29 November 1910 – 19 March 1988), was an Irish poet who is widely held to one of the foremost Irish language poets of the twentieth century. A native of the Aran Islands Gaeltacht, Ó Direáin later spent time working in Galway and Dublin, where he upheld a connection to Gaelic affairs through Conradh na Gaeilge and Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe. A significant theme of his poetic works deals with the tensions between the urban and rural, modernity and tradition, the English-speaking world and Gaeldom.
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The Silver Tassie (play) The Silver Tassie is a four-act Expressionist play about the First World War, written between 1927 and 1928 by the Irish playwright Seán O'Casey. It was O'Casey's fourth play and attacks imperialist wars and the suffering that they cause. O'Casey described the play as "A generous handful of stones, aimed indiscriminately, with the aim of breaking a few windows. I don't think it makes a good play, but it's a remarkable one."
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O'Casey O'Casey is a common variation of the Gaelic "cathasaigh", meaning "vigilant" or "watchful", with the added anglicized prefix "O'" of the Gaelic "Ó", meaning "grandson" or "descendant". At least six different septs used this name, primarily in the Counties of Cork and Dublin.
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Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is a satirical fictional Irish character, a wealthy Dublin 4 rugby union jock created by journalist Paul Howard. The character first appeared in a January 1998 column in the "Sunday Tribune" newspaper and later transferred to "The Irish Times". The series comprises fourteen novels, three plays, a CD, two other books and the newspaper column, as of 2014.
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Leon Ó Broin Leon Ó Broin (10 November 1902 – 26 February 1990) was an Irish Civil Servant, writer and playwright, who wrote many plays, stories and historical works in both English and Irish.
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Edmund Falconer Edmund Falconer (c.1814 – 29 September 1879), born Edmund O'Rourke, he was an Irish poet, actor, theatre manager, songwriter and playwright, known for his keen wit and outstanding acting skills.
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Stewart Parker James Stewart Parker (20 October 1941 – 2 November 1988) was a Northern Irish poet and playwright.