Abstract
Sean O’Casey’s last full-length play is a gay-spirited, triumphal comedy, sub-titled ‘A Mickrocosm of Ireland’. The Sheridanesque motto preceding the printed text indicates that it is ‘an idle, laughing play’ about follies and failings ‘encumbering Ireland’s way’, whose hallmark is to ensure
That mobled minds may all new courage grow,
And miser’d hearts be merry.
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© 1984 John O’Riordan
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O’Riordan, J. (1984). The Drums of Father Ned (1960): a Prefigurative Comedy. In: A Guide to O’Casey’s Plays. Macmillan Studies in Anglo-Irish Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07093-0_20
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