Red Roses for Me (play)

{{Short description|Play written by Seán O'Casey}}

{{About|the play|the Pogues album|Red Roses for Me}}

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Red Roses for Me is a four-act play written by Irish playwright Seán O'Casey which premiered at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin in 1943.{{cite book |last=O'Casey |first=Seán |author-link=Seán O'Casey |year=1944 |title=Red Roses for Me: A Play in Four Acts |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/redrosesformeapl0000ocas |url-access=registration |publisher=Macmillan }}{{cite book |last=O'Casey |first=Eileen |author-link=Eileen O'Casey |editor-last=Trewin |editor-first=J.C. |editor-link=J. C. Trewin |year=1971 |title=Sean |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/sean0000unse_e6o7 |url-access=registration |publisher=Macmillan |page=193 |isbn=0-333-09442-5}} The story is set against the backdrop of the Dublin Lockout of 1913, events in which O'Casey himself had participated.{{Cite news |last=Schwabacher |first=Thomas K. |title=Red Roses for Me |date=20 December 1955 |work=The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1955/12/20/red-roses-for-me-psean-ocasey/ |access-date=19 February 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/ocasey-sean-a6553 |title=O'Casey, Sean |first=Robert G.|last=Lowery |work=Dictionary of Irish Biography |access-date=19 February 2024}}