Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett hope to nurture creativity in the same way their acclaimed interpretations of the playwright’s work were supported
Samuel Beckett
The Nobel laureate is a master of the short novel – but none of them rivals Septology, an 800-page, single-sentence masterpiece
Film review: Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea play the writer to great effect but the pedestrian writing bogs proceedings
In the film Dance First, the young Irish actor joins Gabriel Byrne as the older Beckett and Aidan Gillen as James Joyce
Big Picture Festival of Press Photography this month is being organised by the Press Photographers Association of Ireland
If he were alive today there’s little doubt rugby fan Samuel Beckett would have been keenly interested in Ireland’s World Cup progress
The Irish actor was capable of threat and pathos, with the ability to boom and to shrink into his large frame
Dublin-born performer made his stage debut at the capital’s Gate Theatre in 1962
Presenting runners with a tribute to Yeats featuring a line he almost certainly never said is an embarrassing travesty for a city that prides itself on its literary heritage
Legacy of French writer and dramatist Antonin Artaud who was detained in Milltown, Donnybrook and Mountjoy is focus of Ranelagh Arts
An Irish Times article on the controversy over the poet’s remains provided the creative spark for young French radio journalist Maylis Besserie
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