Beckett In DublinIreland, and in particular Dublin, was Samuel Becketts cradle, a place, in Eoin OBriens words, he revisited with the same intensity that Proust went back to Combray. It was fitting, then, shortly after Becketts death, that his birthplace through the good offices of the Gate Theatre, Trinity College and Radi Telefs ireann should have decided to honour the 1969 Nobel prize winner by staging all of his dramatic productions over three weeks during October

where Christianity not Mysterious was enormously influential

‘The Taking of Christ’

the underlying results of structural and policy decisions made in Brussels or Dublin and their impact on the ground

to any spot in the empire on which the sun never set

letters and political writings

' - Samuel Beckett \n \n'De Faoite's special achievement is twofold

as is obligatory with an insect play

and the glitter and rarity of a Faberge egg

These factual and fascinating biographical sketches make for ‘delightful reading’ (Frank Muir)

a drama of kidnap and murder unfolds

A loveable Galwayman

by broadcaster and documentary film-maker Muirís Mac Conghail