[89] To John Hutchinson, 10 Sept 1953 (L II. 990).
[90] To Sean O’Rourke, 24 Dec 1947 (L II. 494).
[91] A I. 557-8.
[92] To Jim Kavanagh, 29 Apr 1951 (L II. 789).
[93] To John Hutchinson, 20 Oct 1953 (L II. 990).
[94] MM, 48.
[95] Kit Casey in McCann, 165-6.
[96] A I. 572.
[97] Deirdre Henchy, “Dublin in the Age of O’Casey”, in Essays on Sean O’Casey’s Autobiographies, ed. R. Lowery (1981), 55.
[98] To IW, 5 Mar 1912 (L I. 12).
[99] R. M. Fox, Jim Larkin: The Rise of the Underman (1957), 16-17.
[100] Andrew Boyd, The Rise of the Irish Trade Unions (1972, repr. 1985), 80.
[101] Dublin 1913, a Divided City (Dublin, 1982) 70.
[102] A I. 559.
[103] A I. 559-60.
[104] IW, 14 Dec 1912.
[105] To IW, 8 Feb 1913 (L I. 13).
[106] To IW, 1 Mar 1913.
[107] A I. 525, 529.
[108] To Irish Freedom, May 1942 (L II. 46).
[109] To IW, 21 Feb 1919 (L I. 27).
[110] To IW, 7 June 1913.
[111] James Plunkett, Big Jim (Dublin, 1955), 34-5.
[112] Dublin 1913, 78.
[113] A I. 606.
[114] Dublin 1913, 70.
[115] MM, unpub. notes.
[116] Boyd, Rise of the Irish Trade Unions, 92.
[117] A I. 583.
[118] A I. 589.
[119] Jim Phelan, The Name’s Phelan (1948), 153.
[120] V. I. Lenin, Lenin on Ireland (1920), 7-9.
[121] Irish Times, 6 Oct 1913.
[122] To Frank McCarthy, 12 July 1949 (L II. 623).
[123] IW, 27 Sept 1913.
[124] ICA, 4-5, 1, 7-8.
[125] Irish Freedom, Mar 1913.
[126] Bulmer Hobson, A Short History of the Irish Volunteers (Dublin, 1918), in Feathers, 179.
[127] ICA, 10-11.
[128] Dublin 1913, 99-104.
[129] A I. 423, 429, 440, 442.
[130] MM, 60-1; Kit Casey in McCann, 165; MM, unpub. notes.
[131] Yeats, Collected Poems, 288.
[132] IW, 1914: 25 Jan, 7, 21, 28 Feb, 7, 14 Mar.
[133] ICA, 18.
[134] Irish Writing, Feb 1949 (L II. 580).
[135] ICA, 20-1.
[136] A I. 613.
[137] ICA, 31, 26.
[138] Ltr. to John Devoy, 14 May 1914, in MM, unpub. notes.
[139] ICA, 39, 43.
[140] A I. 596.
[141] C. Desmond Greaves, Sean O’Casey (1979), 81.
[142] MM, unpub. notes.
[143] MM, unpub. notes.
[144] A I. 641, 627.
[145] ICA, 52.
[146] Tim Pat Coogan in McCann, 111.
[147] MM, 60.
[148] A I. 633.
[149] FIP, 259-60.
[150] Colored Cap, 263.
[151] To Robert Monteith, 31 Dec 1954 (L II. 1135-6).
[152] Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green (repr. 1978), 212.
[153] To Jack Carney, 22 Apr 1943 (L II. 129-30).
[154] J. R. White, Misfit (1930), 307.
[155] A I. 647.
[156] A II. 56-60; MM 68-9.
[157] Yeats, Collected Poems, 355.
[158] Seamus Scully, “Ghosts of Moore Street” in Dublin Historical Record (Dublin, 1971), 55-63.
[159] To Gerald O’Reilly, 26 Apr 1945 (L II. 234).
[160] Spectator, 2 Nov 1945.
[161] Dublin 1916, ed. R. McHugh (1976), 361.
[162] White, Misfit, 350.
[163] ICA, 64.
[164] A I. 654.
[165] ICA, 63.
[166] To James Shiels, 14 June and 17 July 1916 (L I. 58-9, 60).
[167] To Francis MacManus, 12 Apr 1942 (L I. 42).
[168] MM, 64-7.
[169] Unpub. ltrs. to MK, 7 May 1917 and undated (NLI).
[170] Sean McCann in McCann, 36.
[171] Unpub. ltrs. to MK, 6 Oct and Oct 1917 (NLI).
[172] Unpub. ltr. to MK, undated (NLI).
[173] A II. 187.
[174] Unpub. ltr. to MK, 16 Aug 1917 (NLI).
[175] “Homage to Thomas Ashe”, Feathers, 160.
[176] To Dublin Saturday Post, 6 Oct 1917 (L I. 65).
[177] A II. 4.
[178] Feathers, 163.
[179] Paddy McDonnell in McCann, 171.
[180] Tom Buggy, “Sean O’Casey’s Dublin”, O’Casey Annual No. 1, ed. R. Lowery (1982), 94.
[181] To John Gassner, 25 Sept 1954 (L II. 1094).
[182] MM, 75-6.
[183] A II. 490.
[184] Sean McCann in McCann, 33.
[185] MM, 80.
[186] To Fergus O’Connor, 13 and 17 Feb, 15 Apr 1918 (L I. 70, 71, 84).
[187] A II. 21, 15.
[188] MM, 77.
[189] To Robert Ginna, 17 Aug 1953 (L II. 986).
[190] Isaac Casey was prevented by wartime restrictions from attending his mother’s funeral, and SO’C never spoke to him again.
[191] Sean McCann in McCann, 32-3.
[192] Unpub. ltr. to MK, 23 July 1919 (NLI).
[193] Unpub. ltr. to MK, 23 July 1919 (NLI).
[194] Unpub. notebook, 1918 (Berg).
[195] A I. 402.
[196] MM, 81.
[197] MM, 82.
[198] A II. 96.
[199] Paddy McDonnell in McCann, 171.
[200] A II. 95-6.
[201] CP V. 435, 443.
[202] CP V. 460.
[203] To GJN, 21 Feb 1942 (L II. 2).
[204] CP V. 419.
[205] To MK, May 1919 (Sean McCann in McCann, 41).
[206] A II. 190.
[207] To MK, undated (Sean McCann in McCann, 41).
[208] GBS to SO’C, 3 Dec 1919 (L I. 87).
[209] Paddy McDonnell in McCann, 171.
[210] Unpub. ltr. to MK, 22 Dec 1919 (NLI).
[211] To John Gassner, 25 Sept 1954 (L II. 1095).
[212] Abbey Theatre Reader’s Opinion, 28 Jan 1920 (L I. 92).
[213] Abbey Theatre Reader’s Opinion, 28 Jan 1920 (L I. 91-2).
[214] A II. 194, 30.
[215] A II. 33.
[216] Kit Casey in McCann, 165.
[217] A I. 611; unpub. ltr. to Ronald Ayling, 26 Jan 1960 [L III].
[218] To IW, 21 Feb 1914.
[219] A II. 38.
[220] Feasta, May 1955.
[221] Irish Statesman, 7 June 1924.
[222] Feasta, May 1955.
[223] A II. 46.
[224] Unpub. ltr. to Saros Cowasjee, 23 Oct 1958, quoted in S. Cowasjee, Sean O’Casey: The Man Behind the Plays (1965), 90.
[225] To Jack Carney, 28 Mar 1942 (L II. 33).
[226] To Jack Carney, 10 Jan 1947 (L II. 435).
[227] LR to SO’C, 5 Nov 1921; for original version see Lady G Journals, 651-2.
[228] Later he mistakenly gave the name of the play as The Robe of Rosheen, stating it was published in The Plain People; but this was another early piece, which O’Casey had apparently forgotten.
[229] Play critique by WBY, 19 June 1922 (L I. 101-2).
[230] To LR, 9 Oct 1922 (L I. 104).
[231] To Joseph Jay Deiss, 12 Dec 1950 (L II. 761).
[232] R. M. Fox in McCann, 43, 45, 44-6.
[233] FIP, 117.
[234] FIP, 125-6, 167.
[235] FIP, 164, 165.
[236] FIP, 132, 161-2.
[237] To LR, 17 Nov 1922 (L I. 105).
[238] The Observer, 10 Feb 1924.
[239] Holloway, 215-16.
[240] FIP, 134, 168.
[241] FIP, 138.
[242] Holloway, 216.
[243] A II. 143.
[244] Lady G Journals, 446.
[245] Fallon, 3-7.
[246] Harry Brogan in McCann, 173.
[247] A II. 103, 144.
[248] Holloway, 218.
[249] Leaders and Worker
s, ed. J. W. Boyle (Dublin, 1966), 84.
[250] ICA, 67.
[251] To Jack Carney, 10 Jan 1946 (L II. 339).
[252] FIP, 166-7.
[253] A II. 140.
[254] Unpub. notebook Juno.
[255] Holloway, 221.
[256] A II. 144.
[257] Fallon, 17.
[258] Holloway, 220-1.
[259] A II. 8.
[260] FIP, 77.
[261] A II. 81.
[262] James O’Connor (Seamus O’Concubhair) to SO’C, 27 June 1921 (L I. 93).
[263] Unpub. notebook Juno.
[264] Unpub. notebook Juno.
[265] Quoted in John P. Frayne, Sean O’Casey (New York, 1976), 16.
[266] FIP, 110.
[267] Fallon, 26.
[268] FIP, 21, 95.
[269] To LR, 29 Dec 1923 (L I. 108).
[270] Holloway, 224, 151.
[271] A I. 519, II. 105.
[272] Fallon, 19.
[273] Lennox Robinson, Curtain Up (1942), 139-40.
[274] To Robert Ginna, 17 Aug 1953 (L II. 987).
[275] Fallon, 21.
[276] Holloway, 226.
[277] Irish Statesman, 15 Mar 1924.
[278] To David Greene, 1 Jan 1953 (L II. 929).
[279] Lady G Journals, 511-12.
[280] Lady G Journals, 512.
[281] To Frank McCarthy, 7 Mar 1949 (L II. 594).
[282] To Jim Kavanagh, 9 Feb 1947 (L II. 448).
[283] Unpub. ltr to Saros Cowasjee, 23 Oct 1958, quoted in Cowasjee, Sean O’Casey.
[284] Lady G Journals, 512.
[285] Cowasjee, Sean O’Casey, 44-6.
[286] Lady G Journals, 513.
[287] Seanad Éireann Parliamentary Debates, V (11 June 1925), 443.
[288] Further Letters of J. B. Yeats, ed. L. Robinson (Dundrum, 1920), 23.
[289] Freeman’s Journal, 13 Nov 1901.
[290] Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Masks (repr. 1979), 128.
[291] David Krause, The Profane Book of Irish Comedy (1982), 45.
[292] Ernest Fenellosa and Ezra Pound, Noh (1916), 5-6.
[293] WBY to SO’C, 26 Mar 1924 (L I. 108).
[294] A II. 232-3.
[295] Ellmann, Yeats, 215.
[296] A II. 234-5.
[297] Holloway, MS Apr-June 1924, 938-9.
[298] The Bell, vol. XIII (1946-7), 7.
[299] Colum, 120.
[300] To Lady G, 2 June 1924 (L I. 109).
[301] A II. 115.
[302] A II. 115.
[303] To Lady G, 12 July 1924 (L I. 112).
[304] Fallon in Modern Drama IV (1961), 231.
[305] To Lady G, 22 July 1924 (L I. 113).
[306] To Shaemas O’Sheel, 27 July 1951 (L II. 814-15).
[307] Daniel Macmillan to James Stephens, 27 Aug 1924 (L I. 115).
[308] Holloway (22 Aug 1924), 237.
[309] Holloway, MS Apr-Jun 1924, 940.
[310] FIP, 278.
[311] Fallon, 2.
[312] Beatrice Coogan in McCann, 74.
[313] A II. 125.
[314] A II. 128-9, 135.
[315] David Krause’s distinctions, in his Profane Book of Irish Comedy.
[316] To Lady G, 22 July 1924, Sept 1924 (L I. 113, 118).
[317] FIP, 340.
[318] New York Times, 4 Dec 1960.
[319] FIP, 267, 216, 217.
[320] FIP, 332, 259, 249, 271.
[321] Sean McCann in McCann, 35.
[322] The Observer, 14 Feb 1926.
[323] MM, 68.
[324] Holloway, 242.
[325] Fallon in Modern Drama IV, 231-2.
[326] To Lady G, Oct 1924 (L I. 119).
[327] To R. M. Fox, 27 Oct 1924 (L I. 120).
[328] Sean McCann in McCann, 31.
[329] Anthony Butler in McCann, 92.
[330] To Sam Wanamaker, 3 Apr 1953 (L II. 958).
[331] The Story of the Abbey Theatre, ed. S. McCann (1967), 119.
[332] Story of the Abbey Theatre, 119, 116, 117.
[333] Cyril Cusack in The O’Casey Enigma, ed. Micheál Óh Aodha (Dublin, 1980), 37.
[334] Beatrice Coogan in McCann, 77.
[335] B. Coogan in McCann, 82.
[336] To GF, [?] May 1925 (L I. 135).
[337] To Lady G, 12 Aug 1925 (L I. 138).
[338] A II. 156.
[339] To M. J. Dolan, 13 Aug 1925 (L I. 138-40).
[340] A II. 156-7.
[341] To GF, 26 Aug 1925 (L I. 142).
[342] Lady Gregory’s Journals 1916-1930, ed. L. Robinson (1946), 88.
[343] George O’Brien to WBY, 5 Sept 1925; WBY and LR to O’Brien, 10 Sept 1925; O’Brien to WBY and LR, 13 Sept 1925 (L I. 144-7).
[344] To Lady G, 11 Sept 1925 (L I. 147-8).
[345] A II. 159-63.
[346] To Lady G, 1 Nov 1925 (L I. 155).
[347] FIP, 220.
[348] FIP, 258, 223-4.
[349] Sunday Times, 22 Nov 1925.
[350] To Sara Allgood, 7 Dec 1925 (L I. 157).
[351] Fallon, 88.
[352] To Sara Allgood, 7 Dec 1925 (L I. 161).
[353] FIP, 265.
[354] To LR, 10 Jan 1926 (L I. 166).
[355] A II. 147.
[356] A II. 148.
[357] Holloway, 231 (an echo of a phrase Holloway used of SO’C; cf. p. 213), 200-1.
[358] Yeats, Collected Poems, 205.
[359] Holloway, 251.
[360] Holloway, 252.
[361] Ria Mooney in McCann, 167.
[362] A II. 150.
[363] Irish Statesman, 20 Feb 1926.
[364] Holloway, 253.
[365] ICA, 64.
[366] Dr John Larchet in McCann, 176-7.
[367] Fallon, 92.
[368] A II. 149.
[369] Holloway, 255.
[370] An Poblacht, 19 Feb 1926.
[371] Donal Dorcey in McCann, 65.
[372] Irish Times, Irish Independent, 12 Feb 1926.
[373] Catholic Bulletin, vol. XVI (1926), 213-19.
[374] Ria Mooney in McCann, 168.
[375] Irish Independent, 15 Feb 1926, 23 Feb 1926.
[376] Holloway, 260, 257.
[377] Irish Independent, 23 Feb 1926.
[378] To Irish Independent, 20 and 26 Feb 1926 (L I. 169, 174).
[379] To Sara Allgood, 23 Feb 1926 (L I. 174).
[380] Irish Independent, 2 Mar 1926.
[381] A II. 152, 153.
[382] The Standard, 4 Mar 1955.
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