Shaw: George Versus Bernard (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

J. P. Hackett

9780484010771: Shaw: George Versus Bernard (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0484010778 ISBN 13: 9780484010771

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When I say that I am an Irishman I mean that I was born in Ireland, and that my native language is the English of Swift and not the unspeakable jargon of the mid-xix century London newspapers. My extraction is the extraction of most Englishmen: that is, I have no trace in me of the commercially imported North Spanish strain that passes for aboriginal Irish I am a genuine typical Irishman of the Danish, Norman, Cromwellian,' and (of course) Scotch invasions. (pre face: by Bernard Shaw, p.

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