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The Dublin birthplace of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw has been sold for $166,000 to a trust that will turn it into a museum. The Dublin-based Shaw Birthplace Museum Trust will restore the eight-room house near the center of Dublin to the way it was when Shaw was born there in 1856. Shaw and his family lived in the house at 33 Synge St. for 10 years. It went up for auction in Dublin last month but failed to reach its reserve price. “We have been after the house for some time and look forward to it becoming the basis of an appropriate permanent commemoration,” Trust chairwoman Nora Lever said.