Born on April 13, 1906, Samuel Beckett remains one of Ireland’s most ... To celebrate his birthday, we’ve gathered some of his most memorable quotes—each a window into the brilliant, complex ...

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely ...

Or maybe we feel the echoes still. Dublin Theatre Festival recently acquired a letter that Samuel Beckett wrote on January 20th, 1958, warning that he might withdraw from that year’s event.

Then he told me about taking Samuel Beckett to a game of cricket. So here was dear Peter, escorting the man to Lord’s, where they would drink in the wan English sun and admire the gentle cover drives ...

Modernism is, in one of its facets, the project of looking into that abyss. This was certainly Samuel Beckett’s modernist project. A fresh chance to look into the abyss for ourselves is provided ...

takes inspiration from Dubliner Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1953), and its structure from the Good Friday Agreement. As an aside, Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906.

The donation was made by the Dublin Theatre Festival through the support of board member, Tom Clinch and his wife Méav Ní Mhaolchatha. A letter by Samuel Beckett has been donated by the Dublin Theatre ...

In The Unnamable, the writer’s prose was stripped to the bone – and the bone itself boiled white. By Eimear McBride Perversely, considering the novel’s refusal to stop, The Unnamable arrived at the ...

Not in this instance, when it's Beckett on a Parisian street... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to A Single Word, by Peter Cunningham above. The less said about Samuel Beckett ...