Playwright Seán O’Casey’s daughter: ‘He never seemed old to me... he was quite adventurous’

Seán O’Casey’s daughter Shivaun, a living link to one of our most famous playwrights, has written a memoir that includes ...
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Obituary: John Carey, literary scholar and a waspish critic who railed against intellectual snobbery

John Carey, the former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford who has died aged 91, was one of Britain’s most ­eminent ­literary critics, but one who ­always regarded himself as an outsider ...