Sean O’Casey was born on March 30, 1880, in Dublin, Ireland. Embroiled in the Irish Nationalist cause, he joined the Irish Citizen Army in 1914. After the Easter Rising, he spent half a decade writing plays. The first to be accepted was The Shadow of a Gunman in 1923. In 1926 he finished The Plough and the Stars. His last play was published in 1961. He died on September 18, 1964, in Torquay, England. He is considered the greatest of the Irish playwrights who began writing after World War I.
His father died with he was six years old, and the family (of thirteen!) had to move from house to house in North Dublin. His birth name is John, but as he got more involved in politics and took up the Irish nationalist cause, he changed his name to Sean.
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