| George Bernard Shaw
in Boston
An exhibit displaying special items in the George Bernard Shaw collection
will open at the Burns Library, Boston College, on Thursday, November
18, 2004, and will run through April 2005.
The collection, acquired by the library in 2002, includes approximately
3,000 books and other printed items, such as many pamphlets written by
Shaw, on all the controversial subjects of his day: education, war and
peace, socialism, every aspect of economics, relations between England
and Ireland, and the like.
Shaw, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925, was a socialist,
a pacifist, a vegetarian – and his views on these and other subjects
are expressed at length in the collection. Hundreds of newspaper clippings
reflect his views in letters to newspapers and his replies to other letters.
In addition to the printed materials there are portraits, photographs,
playbills, programs, posters, letters and notes. Hundreds of playbills
reveal the extensive and varied productions of Shaw’s major and
minor plays.
The acquisition of this collection on Shaw is a significant addition to
Boston College’s acclaimed Irish collections at Burns Library. Considered
the most comprehensive repository of Irish research materials in the United
States, the collection includes some of the world’s finest archives
related to major Irish writers including Samuel Beckett, W.B. Yeats, Sean
O’Casey, Frederick Green, Francis Stuart, Ethel Mannin, Nuala Ni
Dhomhnaill and Seamus Heaney.
The exhibit and collection are open to the public, and visitors are always
welcome to the Burns Library of Boston College.
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