George Bernard Shaw was born in no. 22 Synge Street. He hadn't the happiest of childhoods with his less than abstemious father becoming estranged from his much younger wife.
The young Shaw adored his mother and from her he cultivated a life-long interest in music. His first love in his adolescent years was art and he spent many happy hours in the National Gallery of Ireland. He generously repaid a debt of gratitude to the gallery by granting the institution a share in the royalties of one of his most successful plays Pygmalion and its spawn, the film My Fair Lady.
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