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MA MA Dissertation of Chongqing University ABSTRACT PAGE PAGE IV ABSTRACT Sean O‘Casey is one of the greatest Irish dramatists in the Irish Literary Renaissance. His best-known works Dublin Trilogy, including The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars, were created in Dublin slum dialect in the 1920s. They truly reflect the war-worn Ireland from Easter Rising in 1916 to the civil war in 1922. Since the premieres of Dublin Trilogy at the Abbey Theatre, they have gained great popularity in Ireland, as well as England and America, and have firmly established O‘Casey‘s fame in English and American literary circles. However, most critics have focused their studies on the analysis and argumentation of tragic-comedy writing skill in Dublin Trilogy, ignoring O‘Casey‘s thought on Irish culture. Through Lacan‘s ―Mirror Stage Theory‖, this dissertation tries to study the Irishness reflected in Dublin Trilogy – the Irish national identity. Firstly, the third chapter of this dissertation analyzes the Irishness – the Irish national identity. The Irish are facing the crisis of national identity after nearly 800 years of British colonization. Since the rise of Irish nationalist movements, the Irish begin to search their national identity. However, the attitude of denying English, and returning to the ancient Celtic society is wrong and unrealistic, because the present Ireland is no longer the pure Celtic country due to the large-scale English transplantation in the 16th and 17th century. The Self and the Other relationship in Lacan‘s ―Mirror Stage Theory‖ claims that the establishment of Self depends on the Other. Similarly, the national identity is formed in the process of contacts and conflicts with the outer cultures and outer nations. So, the Irishness is formed gradually in the course of communications and conflicts with England. The language of the Dublin Trilogy is discussed in the next chapter. Language is the ke