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From ‘Mr Foy Tells of GBS (Orchard-raider)’, Empire News (Irish edn), Manchester, 19 November 1950. Mr Foy is probably to be identified with the man named above (p. 7) as Mr Fry. His recollection may be complemented by Shaw’s reported answer to Patrick O’Reilly, a Dublin dustman who had organised the erection of a plaque on Shaw’s birthplace. On a visit to Shaw in the late 1940s, O’Reilly asked him if he remembered the Pottle, a narrow alleyway in Dublin (near which Swift had lived). ‘Yes, indeed, I remember it well,’ Shaw replied. ‘I often played marbles from Synge Street, up the Pottle into the Coombe and back by the ‘Barn’ past my father’s mill at Rutland House. I remember, too, robbing an orchard at the back of Portobello Bridge on the way home’ (Desmond M. Fisher, ‘Shaw’s Other Dustman’, American Mercury, March 1954, p. 121).
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Foy, J. (1990). Boys at Play. In: Gibbs, A.M. (eds) Shaw. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05402-2_2
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