565 pages. ‘Written with tenderness and great technical skill… It is the measure of this biography that Sean O’Casey does indeed emerge at last as a noble myth-maker, a man of strength and kindness. Garry O’Connor lifts his human contradiction, his “parratox”, towards a universal predicament — an exile which still speaks to a world-wide audience — and makes the dramatist’s tenement a permanent symbol of the rag-and-bone shop of the human heart’ — Richard Holmes, The Times

‘We need the kind of book that Mr O’Connor has written, scrupulous in its factuality and full in its documentation. The portrait that emerges is of a good man but a perverse one … It is well and honestly done and it is highly recommended’ — Anthony Burgess, The Independent

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