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Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled incantations as the casualties stack up. Months later, Harry returns, a cripple at the football club party. Everyone but the shattered war veterans dance and forget.

Peppered with acrid wit and dark vaudeville humour, The Silver Tassie, Sean O''Casey''s powerful anti-war play of 1928, receives a major revival at the National Theatre in April 2014.

The Silver Tassie

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 17 April 2014
      ISBN-13 9780571315185
      978-0571315185
      ISBN-10 0571315186

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled incantations as the casualties stack up. Months later, Harry returns, a cripple at the football club party. Everyone but the shattered war veterans dance and forget.

      Peppered with acrid wit and dark vaudeville humour, The Silver Tassie, Sean O''Casey''s powerful anti-war play of 1928, receives a major revival at the National Theatre in April 2014.

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