O’CASEY, Sean. Two Plays. Juno and the Paycock. The Shadow of a Gunman.

With portrait of the author by Augustus John. London, Macmillan, 1927. pp. viii, 198, [2]. Quarter linen on blue paper boards. Printed title to spine and inset on upper cover. Previous owner’s signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in rare repaired dust jacket. €125
Juno and the Paycock is a play by Seán O’Casey. Highly regarded and often performed in Ireland, it was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924. It is set in the working-class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish Civil War period. The word “paycock” is the Irish pronunciation of “peacock”, which is what Juno accuses her husband of being.
The Shadow of a Gunman is a 1923 tragicomedy play by Seán O’Casey set during the Irish War of Independence. It centres on the mistaken identity of a building tenant who is thought to be an IRA assassin.

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