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Sean O Casey Festival to open with Fragments From Life- an exhibition by Brian Palm

The Sean O’Casey festival takes place at the Sean O’Casey Theatre and Community centre in East Wall, Dublin at 6:30 pm on Monday 11 September until 23 Se.

The Sean O Casey Theatre is set to host Say A Song celebration honouring Philip Chevron

Hall of Fame: Irish Repertory Theatre Founders Charlotte Moore & Ciarán O Reilly

Hall of Fame: Irish Repertory Theatre Founders Charlotte Moore & Ciarán O Reilly
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Hall of Fame: Irish Repertory Theatre Founders Charlotte Moore & Ciarán O Reilly

By Neil Hickey, Contributor The year is 1980. A former movie actor, Ronald Reagan, whose great-grandfather was an emigrant from the village of Ballyporeen in County Tipperary, is the newly-elected, 40th president of the United States. That same year another emigrant, Ciarán O’Reilly from County Cavan, was performing in an off-Broadway play called Summer by the Irish writer Hugh Leonard, where he met an actress, Charlotte Moore – granddaughter of expatriates from County Wexford – who was a fellow member of the cast. Thus begins the origin story of the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, the most renowned theater company in the U.S., devoted exclusively to staging “the works of Irish and Irish-American classic and contemporary playwrights” (according to its mission statement) and providing a hearth and a home for audiences to savor the work of dramatists from Goldsmith, Synge, Wilde, and Yeats, to Beckett, Shaw, Friel, and Behan, as well as musicals with an Irish tilt:

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