Sean O'Casey: Under a Coloured Cap (2005)

This film paints a fascinating portrait of Sean O'Casey: controversial playwright and one of the great figures of the Irish literary renaissance. Narrated and directed by Shivaun O'Casey - his daughter - the film profiles the writer's life of hardship and triumph, idealism and disenchantment. Topics under discussion include O'Casey's grim formative years; his activities in various socialist movements and in the movements for Irish independence; his satiric and often violent tragicomedies The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars; and his later years in self-imposed exile in Britain

Keywords: easter-uprising, ireland, playwright

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O'Casey, Sean Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Abbey Theatre: The First 100 Years

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Kikeriki

  1989, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Juno and the Paycock

  1980, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen O Dispensário

  1976, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen De ploeg en de sterren

  1975, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Juno und der Pfau

  1974, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Ein Freudenfeuer für den Bischof

  1974, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Skuggan av en hjälte

  1974, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Shadow of a Gunman

  1972, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Skuggen av ein helt

  1972, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Der Pott

  1971, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Juno und der Pfau

  1969, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Pensión pro svobodné pány

  1968, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe

  1968, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Der Schatten eines Kämpfers

  1967, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Aura ja tähdet

  1967, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Abschied vier Uhr früh

  1967, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Kapinoitsijan varjo

  1966, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Der Rebell, der keiner war

  1965, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Kraj pocetka

  1965, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Young Cassidy

  1965, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Funta sa stednje knjizice

  1965, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Rote Rosen für mich

  1964, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Punta vaadittaessa

  1964, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Usporená libra

  1963, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Skyggen af en helt

  1963, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Juno and the Paycock

  1960, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Enden på begyndelsen

  1955, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The End of the Beginning

  1938, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Juno and the Paycock

  1938, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Plough and the Stars

  1936, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Juno and the Paycock

  1929, role: writer

Famous quotes by Sean O'Casey:

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."

"No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year."

"There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life."

"Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life."

"Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves."

"There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible."

"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it."

"The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."

"I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other."

"Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have."

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."

"Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be."

"The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live."

"Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another."

"The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction."

"The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood."

"You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build."

"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it"

"Laughter is wine for the soul-laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living."

"Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves"