15 Euros Sean O'Casey

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Reverse description	The reverse features the Irish Brian Boru harp, the national symbol of Ireland, rendered in finely detailed relief at the centre of the field. The harp displays intricate decorative scrollwork along its forepillar and soundboard, faithful to the traditional heraldic depiction used on Irish coinage. The Gaelic legend 'ÉIRE' is distributed around the upper left of the field, with the date '2026' positioned to the right, both rendered in large, widely spaced characters against the mirror-polished proof field.
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Additional information	Issued to mark the sesquicentennial of O'Casey's birth in 1880, this coin arrives during a period of renewed critical interest in his work — particularly the Dublin Trilogy, whose unsentimental portrayal of tenement life and the Easter Rising made him deeply unpopular with nationalist factions in his own lifetime. The Abbey Theatre riots that greeted The Plough and the Stars in 1926 forced O'Casey into a self-imposed exile in England from which he never returned to live in Ireland. He died in Torquay in 1964, estranged from the country whose voice he had been.