A City of Words – George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), playwright, novelist, and critic, was born at 3 Upper Synge Street, Dublin. He moved to London at 19, where he cultivated his unconventional persona as ‘GBS’: a bearded, witty, socially progressive vegetarian and Marxist dressed in all-wool. One of his most enduringly popular plays, Pygmalion , tells the story of a working class flower seller who is transformed into a high society dame through phonetic training. This premise may sound familiar: it was later adapted into My Fair Lady. Shaw is only one of two people to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar (the other is… Bob Dylan.) A divisive, subversive and hugely popular writer in his time, he died in England in 1950.

How to use this guide 1 Introduction 2 Joyce’s Century 3 Ink and Imagination 4 A Riverrun of Language 5 Letter from James Joyce to WB Yeats, 1912 6 ‘Dear, Dirty Dublin’ 7 Gardens 8 The State and Irish Writing 9 Irish Writing Now: Young Adult Fiction 10 What I Like Most 11 Joyce in Translation 12 Commissions Gallery 13 Copy No.1 of Ulysses 14 A Mind at Work 20 A City of Words - Inside the Dublin Writers Museum Collection 21 A City of Words – George Bernard Shaw 22 A City of Words – Patrick Kavanagh 23 A City of Words - The Abbey Theatre 24 A City of Words - Mary Lavin 25 A City of Words – Sean O'Casey 26 A City of Words - Samuel Beckett 27 A City of Words - Brendan Behan 28 A City of Words – Frank O’Connor 29 A City of Words – Bram Stoker 30 A City of Words – Katharine Tynan 31 A City of Words - Oscar Wilde 32 A City of Words - Hidden Voices 33 A City of Words - The Dublin Writers Museum Visit MoLI

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