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The soil from which art will grow is ever unpredictable and its discovery after the fact often suggests that caprice, rather than mind or nature, governs the relation. Why Dublin? — one would like to know. The question recurs whenever one thinks of how much poetry and drama has come from that mediocre city in the last hundred years: Shaw, Wilde, Yeats, Synge, Joyce, Sean O’Casey — to say nothing of their lesser brothers inside or outside the Abbey Theatre: an unlikely but unmistakable golden age.
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© 1969 Ronald Ayling
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Barzun, J. (1969). O’Casey at Your Bedside (1958). In: Ayling, R. (eds) Sean O’Casey. Modern Judgements. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15301-5_13
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