"Which 20th century Irish playwright wrote ""Juno and the Paycock"", ""The Plough and the Stars"", ""Silver Tassie"" and ""Within the Gates""?"
Juno and the Paycock The performance has a spoken introduction by the author. The cast included: Juno and the Paycock Juno and the Paycock is a play by Seán O'Casey, and is 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. It is the second of his "Dublin Trilogy" – the other two being "The Shadow of a Gunman" (1923) and "The Plough and the Stars" (1926). "Juno and the Paycock" takes place in
Juno and the Paycock (film) young children Mary (Kathleen O'Regan) and Johnny (John Laurie). Juno has dubbed her husband "the Paycock" because she thinks him as useful and vain as a peacock. Juno works while the Captain loafs around the flat when not drinking up the family's meagre finances at the neighbourhood pub. Daughter Mary has a job but is on strike against the victimisation of a co-worker. Son Johnny has become a semi-invalid after losing an arm and severely injuring his hip in a fight with the Black and Tans during the Irish War of Independence. Although Johnny has taken the Anti-Treaty side during