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My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of playwright George Bernard Shaw, arguably the most relevant thinker, artist and literary genius Ireland ever produced.

Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne - an emigrant Irishman with the outsider's ability to observe, needle and puncture.

With Ireland in his heart, he made England his home and London his stage. His insight was ageless - his ideas still resonate almost 70 years after his death. He is one of only two people to have ever been awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar.

Gabriel Byrne sees Shaw as a revolutionary - a literary anarchist. Sharing Shaw's perspective as an 'artistic exile', Byrne explores Shaw's radical and unapologetic political thinking, and his unwavering ability to charm and satirise the establishment that so adored him. It is the story of the most relevant thinker, artist and literary genius Ireland ever produced.

59 minutes

Last on

Thu 11 Jun 2020 23:50

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Presenter Gabriel Byrne
Director Gerry Hoban
Writer Gerry Hoban
Producer Martha Moloney

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