Juno and the Paycock

Juno and the Paycock is a play by Seán O'Casey. Highly regarded and often performed in Ireland, it was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924. It is set in the working-class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish Civil War period. The word "paycock" is the Irish pronunciation of "peacock", which is what Juno accuses her husband of being.

This article is about the play by Seán O'Casey. For the 1930 film by Alfred Hitchcock of the same name, see Juno and the Paycock (film).

Juno and the Paycock
Written bySeán O'Casey
CharactersJuno Boyle
Captain Jack Boyle
"Joxer" Daly
Mary Boyle
Johnny Boyle
Maisie Madigan
Charles Bentham
Jerry Devine
Mrs Tancred
"Needle" Nugent
Irregulars
Furniture Removers
Sewing-Machine Man
Neighbours
Date premiered3 March 1924 (1924-03-03)
Place premieredAbbey Theatre
Original languageEnglish
SeriesDublin Trilogy
SettingTenement room, Dublin, 1922

It is the second of his "Dublin Trilogy" – the other two being The Shadow of a Gunman (1923) and The Plough and the Stars (1926).

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