West Cork residence has streak of the poet

A home which was once an artist’s retreat frequented by George Bernard Shaw offers a respite for the creative soul in us all, writes Catherine Healy

Built as a hotel in the late 1800s, Grove House was popular with artists and writers

Not much besides nationality seems to connect George Bernard Shaw, Jack Yeats and Edith Somerville. The radical playwright, Impressionist painter and comic author inhabited different ...