The Plough and the Stars

The Plough and the Stars

"The Plough and the Stars" is a play by the Irish writer Seán O'Casey first performed in 1926 by the Abbey Theatre in the writer's native Dublin.

It is set in Dublin around the time of the 1916 Easter Rising. Its title comes from the flag of the Irish Citizen Army. It consists of four acts, the first two set in the period leading up to the rising, and the last two set during the rising, the second act being originally conceived as a stand-alone one-act play.

W. B. Yeats famously declared to rioters against Seán O'Casey's pacifist drama "The Plough and the Stars", in reference to the "Playboy Riots" (The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge): "You have disgraced yourself again, is this to be the recurring celebration of the arrival of Irish genius?".

In 1936, it was made into a film by American director John Ford.

External links

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* [http://en.internationalism.org/wr/292_1916_rising.html Sean O’Casey and the 1916 Easter Rising.] from the International Communist Current (Bordigist)
* [http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/drama/ploughandstars.htm Academic play description]


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