Dive into O'Casey's wild Dublin tales, vent your frustrations and come back for more chaos and laughs! Bookers commit to 3 sessions Oct-Nov.

After the success of Jim Stanton's year-long Ulysses reading group, he returns with Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy. Three plays, three evenings, three chances to laugh at people having a terrible time! Across the series, Jim will guide readers through The Shadow of a Gunman (12 Oct), Juno and the Paycock (2 Nov) and The Plough and the Stars (9 Nov), exploring the plays' harsh realism, sharp humour and unflinching portraits of working-class Dublin.

O'Casey's relationship with Ireland's nationalist audiences and the Abbey Theatre was famously volatile. Were his unsparing satires of tenement life an authentic working-class perspective, or caricature that played into anti-Irish tropes? Come and argue it out.

Shared reading builds connection, sharpens language skills and supports mental well-being. Please note: booking is a commitment to all three sessions with limited spaces available.

Image credit: Sean Casey © Mina Turn (1924), colourised in Dola AI.

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