&ldquo;Cashel Byron&#39;s Profession&rdquo; is a novel by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.<br /><br />Cashel Byron&#39;s Profession is George Bernard Shaw&#39;s fourth novel. Shaw wrote five novels early in his career and then abandoned them to pursue politics, drama criticism, and eventually playwriting.&nbsp;<br />The novel follows Cashel Byron, a world champion prizefighter, as he tries to woo wealthy aristocrat Lydia Carew without revealing his illegal profession.