Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.’ Thus Seán O’Casey showed his respect for financial security even in the midst of his artistic endeavours. The lack of it plagued his own childhood and those of most of the children of the docklands at that time. It...
There were always more workers than jobs in Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century and little certainty in life other than you would be hungrier some days than others. The men filed out from the dockland tenements each morning, grateful for any back breaking work they might have....