Identity Statement
Title | George Bernard Shaw Collection |
Archive Reference | IE BL/L/GBS |
Web Link to this Entry | https://iar.ie/archive/george-bernard-shaw-collection |
Creation Dates | 1933-1974 |
Extent Medium | 22 items |
Context
Creator(s): H. Douglas Thompson (Editor), “The Daily Herald”.
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Administrative History ↴
George Bernard Shaw was born in 1856 at 33 Synge Street, Dublin. He was a novelist and playright. Shaw received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 after the success of his play Saint Joan, and the Academy Award for Best Screenplay for Pygmalion in 1938, later made into the musical My Fair Lady (1956). He left a third of his royalties to the National Gallery of Ireland. He died at Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, on November 2, 1950. -
Archival History ↴
IE BL/L/GBS is original correspondence by George Bernard Shaw held in the Boole Library, UCC. The collection was acquired at Mealy’s Auctioneers, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny in 2005. -
Immediate Source Acquisition ↴
Purchase
Content & Structure
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Scope & Content: H. Douglas Thompson (Editor), “The Daily Herald”. ↴
The correspondence (mss and tss) relate to a proposal by “The Daily Herald” to publish a special edition of George Bernard Shaw’s plays, George Bernard Shaw’s Collected Plays, Oldham Press, London, 1934, regarding the terms of the contract and printing, etc. There is additional information on the subject from a memoir from H. Douglas Thompson (Editor), “The Daily Herald”.
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Appraisal Destruction ↴
Permanent Retention -
Arrangement ↴
Listed as a single file
Conditions of Access & Use
Access Conditions | Available by appointment with the Archives Service to holders of UCC Readers tickets |
Conditions Governing Reproduction | By application to the Archivist only |
Creation Dates | 1933-1974 |
Extent Medium | 22 items |
Material Language Script | English |
Finding Aids | Collection description Archive Web Link → |
Allied Materials
There are no Allied Materials
Descriptive Control Area
Archivist Note | Emer Twomey |
Rules/Conventions | ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2nd ed. Ottawa: International Council on Archives, 2000. |
Date of Descriptions | 2005 |