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Sean O’Casey’s Narratives (1966)

January 1969

DOI:10.1007/978-1-349-15301-5_22

In book: Sean O’Casey (pp.220-227)

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Dubliners who come to the republished Autobiographies of Sean O’Casey will feel astonishment, even incredulity as they read the parts dealing with their native city. What will strike him or her as they read chapter after chapter is the penury of the scene. Sixpence represents the difference between gratification and deprivation; men and women sicken and die without the least of the nutriment available today. Then, against prevailing deprivation is a struggle for things that are not of this world: men and women plan, speak and act out of devotion to causes. For a Dubliner who has never seen a barefoot child in the streets, for whom a building in memory of labour leaders he fmds mentioned is seen as dominating one side of the Liffey, for whom causes are taken care of by ministers of the Republic, the Dublin of Johnny Casside’s experience is hardly recognisable.

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