Ireland is steeped in literary history with all-time greats such as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, Patrick Kavanagh and many more. Read about these Irish writers and their lives in this section on Irish literature.
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George Bernard Shaw 1856 - 1950
IrishAbroad.com Dramatist,
critic, and intellectual George Bernard Shaw was left emotionally scarred
by a Dublin childhood spent largely ignored by his parents. The legacy
of this melancholy upbringing left Shaw painfully shy and nearly petrified
of public speaking.
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