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The Latest Breaking News from Samuel Beckett

Beckett festival returns for 10th year as Adrian Dunbar to direct Devenish Island performance

A packed schedule sees a number of famous faces making an appearance

Belfast Live

Toby Jones excited to immerse himself in Beckett during boat act in Fermanagh

The actor is set to perform readings from Samuel Beckett in a graveyard, as well as on a boat on Lough Erne.

The Independent UK

Gabriel Byrne: ‘I was never not conscious of being Irish’

The actor discusses the stage adaptation of his memoir Walking With Ghosts, playing Samuel Beckett in a new film, and making peace with being an exile

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Appreciation: The radical majesty of British theater director Peter Brook

I've been fortunate to have met a number of geniuses in my years as a theater critic but only one who was a true sage.

Los Angeles Times

The case of the acclaimed South African novel that 'borrows' from Samuel Beckett

Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt: may those who utter our words before us perish. This lighthearted Latin curse speaks a truth many readers and writers have felt: to have our thoughts articulated by someone else.

The Conversation

East Belfast Samuel Beckett mural restored after being vandalised

Artist Glen Molloy created the mural as part of a series of projects promoting positivity in East Belfast

Belfast Live

The Big Hit review – feelgood prison comedy as convicts do Beckett

A curmudgeonly actor helps prisoners put on a production of Waiting for Godot in Emmanuel Courcol’s predictable drama

The Guardian - UK

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Yell, Sam, If You Still Can by Maylis Besserie review – Beckett’s last days

A remarkable debut that imagines the Irish writer communing with lost loved ones in a Paris nursing home

The Guardian - UK

Sneak peak inside new 4-star hotel The Samuel located in the heart of Dublin

The modern hotel is just a five-minute walk from Dublin’s iconic Samuel Beckett Bridge across the River Liffey

Dublin Live

Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar's surprising Liverpool connection

The actor and director is curating a new arts festival

Liverpool Echo

Waiting for Beckett: Stephen Dillane and Conor Lovett stage the great playwright’s novel

As they prepare to bring the mesmerising How It Is to London, the actors reflect on performing a text with no characters and no punctuation

The Guardian - UK

French actor Michel Bouquet, star of stage and screen, dies aged 96

The award-winning French actor Michel Bouquet, who appeared in more than 100 films during his 70-year career, died in a Paris hospital on Wednesday aged 96.

Radio France Internationale

David Peace: ‘Publishers should be less risk-averse’

The novelist on being too literary for crime fiction and too ‘crimey’ for literary fiction, and the mysterious death that concludes his Tokyo trilogy

The Guardian - UK

Major collection of James Joyce documents and books donated to university

The donation from Joyce’s grandson includes a telegram from Samuel Beckett, wishing the Ulysses author a happy 49th birthday

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The Independent UK

New James Joyce artefacts and personal letters donated to university

Joyce’s grandson, Stephen James Joyce, and his wife Solange, have donated a collection to the University of Reading.

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