George Bernard Shaw at Whitehall Court. During the first decade of the twentieth century, Shaw secured a firm reputation as a playwright. In 1904 J. E. Vedrenne and Harley Granville-Barker established a company at the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square, Chelsea to present modern drama. Over the next five years they staged fourteen of Shaw's plays. The first, "John Bull's Other Island", a comedy about an Englishman in Ireland, attracted leading politicians and was seen by Edward VII, who laughed so much that he broke his chair. The play was withheld from Dublin's Abbey Theatre, for fear of the affront it might
Padraic Colum the notebooks, manuscripts, galley proofs, and letters that were in his apartments in New York and Dublin to the Binghamton University Libraries. He wished to make whatever resources he could available to scholars of Irish literature and history. Asked how to say his name, he told "The Literary Digest" the last name was the same as the word "column". "In my first name, the first "a" has the sound of "au". The ordinary pronunciation in Irish is "pau'drig"." As screenwriter: As editor: Print Online Padraic Colum Padraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist,