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Seumas Shields and Donal Davoren are roommates in a tenement in Dublin. Seumas� friend Maguire - who left a bag at their room earlier in the day - was killed in an ambush. The men are anxious about the state of Dublin: the police and army presence, the ambushes, the raids. Donal is scornful of the people and their carelessness, while Seumas scolds him about his new friendship with Minnie.
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Start: Seumas: (sleepily) Donal, Donal, are you awake? (Pause.) Donal, Donal, are you asleep?
Davoren: I’m neither awake nor asleep: I’m thinking.
End: Davoren: Why should I be afraid of it? It’s all the same to me how it comes, where it comes, or when it comes. I leave fear of death to the people that are always praying for eternal lie; ‘Death is here and death is there, death is busy everywhere.�
O’Casey, Sean. Three Dublin Plays. Faber and Faber, 1998, pp. 34-40.
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