8th Annual Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Lecture
The 8th Annual Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Lecture by Professor Chris Morash, Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, Trinity College Dublin.
For this year's Dublin UNESCO City of Literature lecture, Prof. Chris Morash, Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin, looks at Sean O'Casey, one of Dublin’s most admired playwrights at the height of his fame, and some of the ways in which both the city, and the National Theatre, nurtured his remarkable talent.
One hundred years ago, on February 8, 1926, Sean O’Casey’s play about the 1916 Rising, The Plough and the Stars, sparked one of the most controversial and memorable nights in the history of the Abbey Theatre, when there were protests in the theatre, and a ringing defence of the play from the stage by W.B. Yeats. However, O’Casey’s relationship with the Abbey was always complicated, and would ultimately break down completely.
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