O'Flaherty V.C.

O'Flaherty V.C.
Written byGeorge Bernard Shaw
Date premiered17 February 1917
Place premieredBelgium, officers of the Royal Flying Corps
Original languageEnglish
Genresatire
SettingIreland

O'Flaherty V.C., A Recruiting Pamphlet (1915) is a comic one-act play written during World War I by George Bernard Shaw. The plot is about an Irish soldier in the British army returning home after winning the Victoria Cross. The play was written at a time when the British government was promoting recruitment in Ireland, while many Irish republicans expressed opposition to fighting in the war.