The Shaw Society - est.1941

Charity celebrating Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw's theatre & writings. Publication-The Shavian
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[THEN Breaking News @THENBreaking]

The Swedish Academy today awarded George Bernard Shaw, the Irish-born playwright, the Nobel prize for literature for 1925. The academy postponed the 1926 award until next year. The dispatches gave no specific grounds, but the honor is generally assumed to rest on his fame as a dramatist. Shaw, who turned 70 a few months ago, has long been known as a Socialist, a pacifist and a firebrand critic of his own country, and he is thought to be among the richest literary men alive.

[Irish History Bitesize! @lorraineelizab6]

#Otd 1925: George Bernard Shaw won Nobel Prize for Lit. "marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty". Refused £7,000 award... "My readers and my audiences provide me with more than sufficient money for my needs".

[Ankor Inclán @ankorinclan]

El 2 de noviembre de 1950, hoy hace 76 años, murió en su casa de Ayot St Lawrence, Inglaterra, un hombre de 94 años al que semanas antes se le había complicado una caída. No se cayó por viejo y torpe: se cayó de un árbol que estaba podando en su jardín. Era George Bernard Shaw, y se fue como vivió: trabajando.

Shaw escribió más de sesenta obras de teatro, entre ellas «Pigmalión», la historia que luego fue «My Fair Lady». Ganó el Nobel de Literatura en 1925 y un Oscar en 1938 por el guion de la película de «Pigmalión», una combinación que casi nadie ha repetido. Y rechazó todos los honores de estado que le ofrecieron, incluida la Orden del Mérito en 1946. Llevaba décadas diciendo exactamente lo que pensaba, sin importarle a quién molestaba.

En la dedicatoria de «Man and Superman» dejó escrito su testamento vital, mucho antes de saber cómo moriría: «Quiero estar completamente gastado cuando muera, porque cuanto más trabajo, más vivo. Yo celebro la vida por sí misma. La vida no es para mí una vela pequeña; es una especie de antorcha espléndida que me han prestado por el momento, y quiero que arda con todo el brillo posible antes de pasarla a las generaciones futuras».

Cumplió. Escribió hasta el final, se cayó de un árbol a los 94 y sus cenizas se mezclaron con las de Charlotte, su mujer, y se esparcieron por los senderos del jardín que tanto cuidó, alrededor de la estatua de Juana de Arco.

Lo que más me gusta es la palabra exacta: «gastado». Frente al miedo moderno a desgastarnos, Shaw proponía lo contrario: que el desgaste honorable es gastarse en lo que amas. En consulta veo personas agotadas no por hacer demasiado, sino por hacer poco de lo que les importa. No es lo mismo estar gastado que estar vacío.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Remembering GEORGE BERNARD SHAW — who died 76yrs ago today, aged 94.

[Virginia @Virginia1Gina]

Remembering George Bernard Shaw, July 26, 1856 - Nov. 2, 1950
At 69, he turned down the Nobel Prize funds, calling it "a lifeboat for someone already safe ashore."
At 83, he earned an Oscar. He remains the only person to receive both, and he spent his life teasing such honors.

[SHAW2020 Theatre Company @SHAW_2020]

On this day, 2 November 1950, George Bernard Shaw died aged 94.

But Shaw's ideas never went quietly. His wit, radical thinking and fearless challenges to convention continue to provoke, entertain and inspire.

76 years on, the conversations and explorations continue...

#OTD

[Duille @DuilleDesign]

Portrait of George Bernard Shaw as 'The Thinker'. Alvin Langdon Coburn. 1906. 

GBS died OTD in 1950.

[The Shaw Society - est.1941 @ShawSoc]

@HughGillanders Yes it would be an excellent idea !

[Hugh Gillanders Bergin - Aodh Mac Giolla Andreis @HughGillanders]

Today marks the anniversary of the passing of writer and Playwright George Bernard Shaw in Synge Street here in Portobello. A stones throw from my house.

A NOBEL PRIZE AND AN OSCAR!

In 1925, Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the second Irish-born writer to receive the honour, following W. B. Yeats in 1923.

True to his independent character, Shaw accepted the award but declined the prize money!

In 1939, he also received an Academy Award (Oscar) for his screenplay of Pygmalion.

🏠 WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS BIRTHPLACE?

His birthplace at 33 Synge Street is now owned by Dublin City Council.

The house once operated as a museum dedicated to his life and work, but it closed in 2012.

Dublin City Council subsequently acquired the property in 2019, with plans to restore it and develop a residence for writers and artists. The building is derelict- alllowing it to diminish without investment or sense of purpose.

As a city we seem to pay lip service to the Arts

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see this historic Portobello house celebrated as a major literary landmark?

I have yet to hear an MEP looking to help or campaign fo Today marks the anniversary of the passing of writer and Playwright George Bernard Shaw in Synge Street here in Portobello. A stones throw from my house.

A NOBEL PRIZE AND AN OSCAR!

In 1925, Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the second Irish-born writer to receive the honour, following W. B. Yeats in 1923.

True to his independent character, Shaw accepted the award but declined the prize money!

In 1939, he also received an Academy Award (Oscar) for his screenplay of Pygmalion.

🏠 WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS BIRTHPLACE?

His birthplace at 33 Synge Street is now owned by Dublin City Council.

The house once operated as a museum dedicated to his life and work, but it closed in 2012.

Dublin City Council subsequently acquired the property in 2019, with plans to restore it and develop a residence for writers and artists. The building is derelict- alllowing it to diminish without investment or sense of purpose.

As a city we seem to pay lip service to the Arts

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see this historic Portobello house celebrated as a major literary landmark?

I have yet to hear our MEPs campaigning forfunding. @barryandrews @ @AodhanTd23528 @@LNBDublin @ReginaDo

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

2 November 1950. Irish playwright and poet George Bernard Shaw died (aged 94). He wrote more than 60 plays including Man and Superman, Pygmalion (later turned into musical My Fair Lady) and Saint Joan. He was the 1st writer to win a Nobel Prize (1925) and an Oscar (1938).

[LibriVox.org @librivox]

#OnThisDay 1950 died George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate. https://t.co/awfjKzj2qQ #biography: https://t.co/OU1XFIK0jn #LibriVox #audiobook

[The Shaw Society - est.1941 @ShawSoc]

2 Nov 1950 GBS died at home aged 94. His housekeeper pinned a note to the gate written by journalist F.G. Prince-White
“Mr Bernard Shaw passed peacefully away at one minute to five o’clock this morning, 2 November. From the coffers of his genius he enriched the world.”

[The Shaw Society - est.1941 @ShawSoc]

Well! We thought about it but we might be biased ….
4 Nobel Laureates does tell you the amazing contribution Ireland has made to Literature
#BernardShaw #ShawSociety

[Irish History Bitesize! @lorraineelizab6]

Have you got a favourite?!

#Ireland has had 4 Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature!

W. B. Yeats, 1923
George Bernard Shaw, 1925
Samuel Beckett, 1969
Seamus Heaney, 1995

📷Busts sculpted by Rowan Gillespie. Photo from @BostonCollege. #IrishAuthors #NationalAuthorsDay 📚🖊️☘️

[The Shaw Society - est.1941 @ShawSoc]

Our next Playreading Workshop is today Wed 28 Oct The Land of Heart’s Desire by Shaw’s friend WB Yeats. It was Yeats first professional production at the Avenue Theatre London 1894 6.30 for 7pm £10 with a light supper Or join us on Zoom for FREE
Email [email protected]

[The Shaw Society - est.1941 @ShawSoc]

Happy #WorldOperaDay - Philip Hagemann has adapted several of Shaw’s plays as operas. They are a perfect introduction to opera. You will be able to see Shaw’s play ‘Passion, Poison and Petrifaction’ as a double bill with Hagemann’s opera June-July 2027 #shawsociety Details soon!

[The Shaw Society - est.1941 @ShawSoc]

Happy #WorldOperaDay ! As well as being a playwright Bernard Shaw was a renowned music critic, a Mozart enthusiast and author of ‘The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs’ (1898). #BernardShaw #Opera #shawsociety

[The Shaw Society - est.1941 @ShawSoc]

‘Not Bloody Likely’ by Neil Titley at the #ConwayHall part of the #BloomsburyFestival Sold Out but a few returns if you hurry !

[MRS SHAW HERSELF @MrsShawHerself]

Really looking forward to today's #ConwayHall performance of NOT BLOODY LIKELY The library is our historic venue & there's a very good Shavian display there @ShawSoc

[OscarWildeSociety @OscarWildeUK]

It’s #OscarWilde’s birthday! 172 years ago, on October the 16th, 1854 in Dublin, our man was born. 80 members of the Oscar Wilde Society are having a Birthday Dinner at the Athenaeum club in London. Others are celebrating in Paris and in San Francisco this weekend. Raise a glass!

[The Shaw Society - est.1941 @ShawSoc]

@OscarWildeUK Happy Birthday Oscar !

[The Shaw Society - est.1941 @ShawSoc]

Sold out!

[MRS SHAW HERSELF @MrsShawHerself]

SOLD OUT! # Bloomsbury Festival
So looking forward to performing at Conway Hall next Sun