The Shadow Of A Gunman by Seán O'Casey was premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on 12th April 1923. It is the first in O'Casey's "Dublin Trilogy" - the other two being Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the Stars (1926).

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Seán O'Casey (Seán Ó Cathasaigh) was born at 85 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin on 30th March 1880. He 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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„When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.“

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The world premiere of Sean O’Casey’s Juno And The Paycock took place at the Abbey Theatre on 3rd March 1924.

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The first performance of Seán O'Casey's the Plough and the Stars took place at the Abbey theatre on 8 February 1926. The play was well received on its opening night. But on subsequent nights audience unrest began and on 11 February Cumann na mBan and Sinn Féin members rioted at perceived insults to the men who had died during the Rising.

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