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Fintan O'Toole Lecture: "Bernard Shaw and the Uses of Celebrity"
Renowned Irish columnist and literary scholar, Fintan O'Toole, will present a lecture, sponsored by the Friends of the Princeton University Library, on Nobel prizewinner for literature and Academy Award winner George Bernard Shaw. Shaw is perhaps best known as the author of Pygmalion, his most popular and most frequently performed play.
O'Toole's new book, Judging Shaw, was recently published by the Royal Irish Academy, and critics hail, "O'Toole brings [Shaw] to life in such a way that is as entertaining as it is enlightening."
O'Toole is the Leonard L. Milberg lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University. This spring semester, he is a visiting lecturer in Theater and Acting Chair for the Irish Studies.