In 1925 Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and he gave it all to spreading the Swedish literature in England.
Bernard Shaw spent his last years in a small estate of Ayott
St.Lawrence where at the age of 90 he still undertook bicycle rides
every morning. He continued to write to the last days of his life.
George Bernard Shaw died on November 2 ,1950 at the age of
94.
Sean O’Casey (1880-1964), born into a poor ,
Protestant family in the slums of Dublin, was the youngest of
thirteen children. His biography reads much like Gorky’s. He
wrote about himself, “Education: in the streets of Dublin. Worked
as a builder’s labourer, railway labourer, and general labourer.”
Sean O’Casey began his literary career as a playwright at the
age of 43. Some of his early plays deal with the struggle of Irishmen
for their independence. Among these are the following plays: The
Shadow of a Gunman (1923), Juno and the Peacock (1924),
The Plough and the Stars (1926)
Sean O’Casey suffered a tragedy like Beethoven’s. The
composer went deaf. O Casey went almost blind. The work the
half-blind writer did was a heroic feat repeated daily.
