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The Easter Rising was widely recognized, even by some of the participants, as more of a symbolic gesture, the ignition of a spark, than the beginning of an actual war of independence.

Weaving a passionate lyricism from contemporary street speech, O’Casey helped to bring the inhabitants of Dublin’s tenements—and their struggles in famine, war, and grinding poverty— into the national spotlight.

Sean Holmes talks about his contemporary approach to O’Casey’s classic.

Ireland’s national theatre first opened its doors in 1904.