George Bernard Shaw, as a famous Irish playwright

Conclusion

Bibliography

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   Shaw's biographer Michael Holroyd records that in 1689 Captain William Shaw fought for William III at the Battle of the Boyne, for which service he was granted a substantial estate in Kilkenny.^[3]
   
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   ^ The four schools were the Wesleyan Connexional School, run by the Methodist Church in Ireland; a private school near Dalkey; Dublin Central Model Boys' School; and the Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School.^[15]
   
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   ^ Shaw's loathing of the name George began in his childhood.^[17] He never succeeded in persuading his mother and sister to stop calling him by the name, but he made it known that everyone else who had any respect for his wishes should refrain from using it—"I hate being George-d".^[18]
   
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   ^ By Shaw's account, Lee left Ireland because he had outgrown the musical possibilities of Dublin; in fact, Lee had overreached himself by trying to oust Sir Robert Stewart as the city's leading conductor. Stewart, professor of music at Trinity College, denounced him as a charlatan, and succeeded in driving him out.^[19]
   
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   ^ Shaw attributed the breach to Bessie's disillusion when Lee abandoned his distinctive teaching methods to pursue a cynically commercial exploitation of gullible pupils; others, including Holroyd, have suggested that Bessie was resentful that Lee's affections were turning elsewhere, not least to her daughter Lucy.^[20][21]
   
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   ^ Shaw had a passable baritone voice,^[22] though he admitted that he was far outclassed as a singer by his sister Lucy, who had a career as a soprano with the Carl Rosa and D'Oyly Carte opera companies.^[23][24]
   
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   ^ Vegetarianism and the luxuriant beard were among the things with which Shaw became associated by the general public. He was also a teetotaller and non-smoker, and was known for his habitual costume of unfashionable woollen clothes, made for him by Jaeger.^[6][30][31]
   
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   ^ The Irrational Knot was eventually published in book form by Constable, in 1905;^[33] Love Among the Artists was first published as a book in 1900, by H. S. Stone of Chicago.^[34]
   
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   ^ The Fabian Society was founded in January 1884 as a splinter group from the Fellowship of the New Life, a society of ethical socialists founded in 1883 by Thomas Davidson.^[44]
   

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   George Bernard Shaw, Androcles and the Lion: Overruled : Pygmalion (New York City: Brentano's, 1918), page 109. Archived 14 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Note: Alexander M. Bell's first wife was named Eliza.)
   
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