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Identification: MSS 099, F168
Creator: O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964.
Title: "Young Cassidy" manuscript
Inclusive Dates: circa 1964
Extent: 1 item (9 pp.)
Abstract: Screenplay revisions loosely based on O'Casey's autobiography.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 099, F168, Sean O'Casey, "Young Cassidy" manuscript, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Shelved in SPEC MSS 099
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Purchase, 1987.
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Irish writer Sean O'Casey (1880–1964) authored essays and autobiographical works but is best known for his plays.
Sources:
"O'Casey, Sean, 1880–1964." Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed March 19, 2007).
This nine-page handwritten manuscript is a series of proposed revisions for John Whiting's screenplay of "Young Cassidy," based loosely on Vol. 1 of O'Casey's autobiography, Mirror in My House.
Sean O'Casey manuscript "Young Cassidy", circa 1964 [Box 8 F168]
Holograph, 9 pp.
