G. Bernard Shaw.
Parknasilla,
27 August, 1909.
APPENDIX III
“THE PLAYBOY IN AMERICA”
(Note to [page 180])
From “The Gaelic American,” Oct. 14, 1911
IRISHMEN WILL STAMP OUT THE “PLAYBOY”
October 14, 1911:—“Resolved—That we, the United Irish-American Societies of New York, make every reasonable effort, through a committee, to induce those responsible for the presentation of The Playboy to withdraw it, and failing in this we pledge ourselves as one man to use every means in our power to drive the vile thing from the stage, as we drove McFadden’s Row of Flats and the abomination produced by the Russell Brothers, and we ask the aid in this work of every decent Irish man and woman, and of the Catholic Church, whose doctrines and devotional practices are held up to scorn and ridicule in Synge’s monstrosity.”
(Note to [page 202])
From The New York “Times”