PORTRAIT OF MR SHAW
DISCUSSION IN DUBLIN
BOTH EULOGISED AND CRITICISED
Members of - Dublin Corporation met to talk about George Bernard Shaw. And Shaw, "a son of the city," was both eulogised and criticised.
Councillor James Larkin, the Labour chief, led the Shaw supporters by remarking: "He says he is going to live until he is 92, but he knows no more about that than any of us.
"I think that this council should write and ask him to come home to liis native city some day' and take Git of Irish earth for burial when he dies. He would honour us if he did.
"He often says foolish things, but sometimes he is wiser in his foolishness than some of us arc in our wisdom." Councillor J. A. O'Byrnc, a scihool teacher, lod the anti-Shaw feeling, demanding angrily: "What did Shaw ever do 'for this country? The only thing we ever get from him is an occasional long-distance wisecrack. "No Dublin man can be proud of himself if he shakes off the dust of his native city and goes to sell his talents in England. "Shaw has never even written a word in the Irish language."
And then the corporation decided that "it would be a great honour lor Dublin if Mr Shaw accepted the freedom of the city."
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14057, 11 May 1946, Page 4
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