Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Speech at the First International Shaw Conference, Dublin

Chapter 3 “The Rush of Air, the Windows Opened on Extravagance and Storm of Idea …”: Kate O’Brien’s The Last of Summer and Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman

Chapter 4 Shavian Echoes in the Work of Elizabeth Bowen

Chapter 5 “An Incorrigible Propensity for Preaching”: Shaw and His Clergy

Chapter 6 Bernard Shaw and Sean O’Casey: Remembering James Connolly

Chapter 7 The Economics of Identity: John Bull’s Other Island and the Creation of Modern Ireland

Chapter 8 O’Flaherty V.C.: Satire as Shavian Agenda

Chapter 10 WWI, Common Sense, and O’Flaherty V.C.: Shaw Advocates a New Modernist Outlook for Ireland

Chapter 11 Bernard Shaw in Two Great Irish Houses: Kilteragh and Coole

Chapter 12 Shaw’s Ireland (and the Irish Shaw) in the International Press (1914–1925)