Prime Minister Opens Window

Oscar Wilde, Irish anniversaries, Samuel Beckett, socialism, William Shakespeare, Irish art, Prime Ministers, and fashion, are some of the subjects you've seen on Irish KC recently.

Well tying them all together nicely, is the 150th anniversary of (George) Bernard Shaw's birth, and the unveiling by British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, of a stained-glass window designed by Shaw to commemorate the Fabian Society, the socialist group which helped form Labour Party of which Blair is the leader.

Ivan Wise, editor of the journal of the Shaw Society, explains Shaw's place in the canon:

He remains the only man to have won both the Nobel Prize for Literature - for Saint Joan in 1925 - and an Oscar for Best Screenplay - Pygmalion in 1938.

Other than Shakespeare and Wilde, Shaw is probably the best-known English language playwright

Famous for bon mots, the Irish playwright once quipped A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic