Abstract
This essay examines the influence of Bernard Shaw on Sean O'Faolain's ideas and his understanding of his role as a public intellectual. In theoretical terms, the essay underscores the rhetorical and concrete importance of precursors, delineating an effective means for successors to legitimise their arguments and to claim the mantle of public intellectual. The genealogical tracing of O'Faolain's indebtedness to Shaw and O'Faolain's repeated defence of him against Irish-Ireland polemicists has more direct implications for Irish Studies, as it attests that Shaw needs to be more seriously, broadly, and consistently considered as an Irish writer.
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