On 12 April 1913, a day after Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Shaw departed Ireland for Ayot St Lawrence after a fortnight visit with Horace Plunkett at his Kilteragh home outside Dublin, an interview with Shaw appeared in the Irish Times.1 The interview was likely a self-interview, which had been a journalistic device Shaw had employed, if not regularly, then at least on occasions.2 The interview ran with the header “MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY” with a succession of subheaders: “THE BRIDGE SITE / INTERVIEW WITH MR. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW / THE DANGER OF FIRE / THE POOR AND PICTURES.”3 The article is not listed in Dan H. Laurence's Bernard Shaw: A Bibliography, nor in Laurence's “Supplement” to the Bibliography (SHAW 20). In addition, it is not included in Laurence and David H. Greene's The Matter with Ireland, yet it represents a significant example of...
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