Which John Ford film was adapted from Sean O'Casey's play about Dublin's Easter Rising?

The John Ford film adapted from Seán O’Casey’s play about Dublin’s Easter Rising is The Plough and the Stars.

O’Casey’s four-act play premiered at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in 1926 and forms the final part of his “Dublin Trilogy.” It presents the 1916 rebellion through the lives of ordinary Dublin residents rather than treating the uprising as uncomplicated heroism.

Ford’s film was produced by RKO and released in 1937, with Barbara Stanwyck as Nora Clitheroe and Preston Foster as her husband, Jack. The story follows Jack’s involvement with the Irish Citizen Army as the rebels prepare to occupy the General Post Office.

A common mix-up is the date: production began in 1936, but the film’s general release was in 1937. Ford’s The Informer is also set amid Irish revolutionary conflict, but it was adapted from Liam O’Flaherty’s novel, not O’Casey’s play.