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from Part II - Social Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2025
From 1926, O’Casey became well known as a critic of Irish nationalism. Some commentators felt that the playwright presented a grotesque distortion of historical events, and a slander on those men who had died for Ireland, including Patrick Pearse. This chapter examines O’Casey’s 1926 play The Plough and the Stars, O’Casey’s relationship with Pearse, and the dramatist’s prose history The Story of the Irish Citizen Army (1919). We see how Irish nationalism changed during the first half of O’Casey’s life, and the way in which his attitude to nationalism also altered, with this chapter making the case that the relation between O’Casey and Irish nationalism was far more shifting and nuanced than has often been perceived.
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