Bernard Shaw the Irish Writer

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Book Review| December 01 2016 Bernard Shaw the Irish Writer Clare, David. Bernard Shaw's Irish Outlook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 207 pages. €60.00. Shaw (2016) 36 (2): 312–315. https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.36.2.0312 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bernard Shaw the Irish Writer. Shaw 1 December 2016; 36 (2): 312–315. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.36.2.0312 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressShaw Search Advanced Search As Bernard Shaw left Dublin and his position at an estate agent's office at the age of twenty to join his mother and sisters in London and promptly become a leading music and theater critic, ardent contributor to the Fabian Society, as well as fierce polemicist and controversial dramatist GBS, critics have understandably focused on his career in England and international impact, rather than on his Irish heritage. His enduring accent and incisive wit marked him as Irish, but his plays were concerned with the social evils of Victorian England and with philosophical reflections, which seemed to render his nationality irrelevant. In Bernard Shaw's Irish Outlook, David Clare reclaims Shaw's Irishness by defining what it meant for Shaw and, through a scrupulous analysis of select plays, shows how Shaw not only was Irish but also wrote “as an Irishman,” in the words of by R. F. Dietrich. Clare pays... You do not currently have access to this content.