Samuel Beckett
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‘When something brilliant happens? I call everybody. Alphabetically’
- People
- April 21, 2018, 06:00
When did you last cry? Aedín: You’re always crying. You were crying in the rehearsal room the other day. Gavin: No I wasn’t! Aedín: It was close. T(...)

America Letter: distinctly Irish theme to the week in Washington
- US
- April 21, 2018, 01:00
Donald Trump was out of town this week, escaping to Mar-a-Lago in Florida to sit out the political controversies that continue to engulf his presidenc(...)

Matilda to Beckett: the best in this week’s theatre
- Stage
- April 14, 2018, 05:00
Matilda the Musical Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin. Ends April 28th, 7.30pm (Mats 2.30pm) €25-€73 bordgaisenergytheatre.ie When the Royal Shakespe(...)

People looking to post-Brexit EU with concern - Donald Tusk
- Politics
- April 10, 2018, 19:58
Thousands of people are looking to a post-Brexit future for the Northern Ireland peace process with “concern and anxiety”, European Council president (...)

My unwanted ‘right to be forgotten’
- Student Hub
- April 10, 2018, 16:21
The ‘right to be forgotten’, recognised by the European Union as the right of individuals to ask search engines to delete information about themselves(...)

Why is the spirit of experimentation and absent from literary arts?
- Books
- March 26, 2018, 14:40
At Phonica: One, Sue Rainsford dipped the pages she was reading from and notebooks she kept towards her evolving novella in water, emphasising the flu(...)

‘It’s a good thing, when you get into trouble, to blame yourself’
- People
- January 20, 2018, 06:00
When did you last cry? Mark: I’m a great person for crying at films, I have to say. Pat: Yeah Mark: I love when that happens because it means you’r(...)

'When we return our California home might be a burnt-out shell'
- Abroad
- December 21, 2017, 14:00
James Claffey, a writer from Co Westmeath, lives on an avocado ranch in Carpinteria in California. Recent wildfires ripping through the region have fo(...)

The world’s greatest – but probably least-known – Irish library
- Books
- December 14, 2017, 10:31
I don’t go to Monaco for the sports cars or casinos but to enjoy a delicate, pea-green first full edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, published by Sylvi(...)

Why are artists intoxicated with Samuel Beckett?
- Art & Design
- December 9, 2017, 05:00
What was it about Samuel Beckett? In addition to writing fiction and plays that continue to absorb audiences and tease the imagination, the Nobel Laur(...)