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A hardcover first edition, 1976, published by St Martin's Press, an account by Eileen O'Casey of her own life as an actress and her life with playwright and author Sean O'CASEY.
Illustrated with b&w Photographs. With an introduction by J.C Trewin.
Eileen O'Casey (27 December 1900 - 9 April 1995) was an Irish born actress, model, author, and wife of dramatist Sean O'casey She used the stage name Eileen Carey. O'Casey had her first professional performances in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas in 1923 and 1924. She took her mother's maiden name as a stage name, and performed in musical comedy in England and America and modelled under the name Eileen Carey from 1925 to 1926. Having read Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, she developed an obsessive need to meet the author. Upon her return to London from New York, she arranged an introduction to him. She was 17 years his junior, and he immediately invited her to take the role of Nora Clitheroe in The Plough and the Stars for its first London production. The O'Casey's married on 23 September 1927, and were together until Sean died in 1964. They were a highly social couple, and met and entertained a huge range of actors, authors and theatre luminaries.
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