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Title  Young Cassidy
Taken from one of the many O'Casey biographies, this film depicts Sean as a bookish young man. In pre-WWI Dublin where a new sense of freedom is taking hold of the land, money is in short supply. While trying to support his mother and siblings, Sean meets a fellow reader on the job. His new friend invites him to join a union. (Later he will inspire him to join the rebels.) He finds a purpose for his reading and writing and becomes increasingly useful to the cause with his pamphlets. His reading also leads to romance - he is caught stealing books by an attractive store clerk. His career in writing is bolstered by W.B. Yeats who found in Sean a true voice of working-class Ireland and produced his plays amid skepticism and even violent opposition. Three of his plays can be found on film. See: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock. The third installment, The Plough and the Stars, is out of print but is available for streaming.			Click picture for more info
Year   1965	Type   Drama	Rating
Director  Jack Cardiff		Writer  John Whiting
Cast  Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Julie Christie, Edith Evans, Michael Redgrave,    Flora Robson