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Dublin Port will be the focus of a special three-part series on RTÉ Nationwide, beginning Monday, 28 April 2025, at 7pm on RTÉ One. The series will explore the Port’s daily operations, rich history, ...
This month the Dictionary of Irish Biography is publishing 22 new and updated biographical entries of important Irish figures ...
Born on April 13, 1906, Samuel Beckett remains one of Ireland’s most enigmatic and ... Beckett was born in Foxrock, Dublin, in 1906, Beckett spent most of his adult life in France, writing ...
Handel gave a season of concerts in Dublin in the winter of 1741–42 at the venue after an invitation from the Duke of Devonshire, then serving as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. These concerts ...
channeling his performance of the title character of Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett. The previous year he had brought this production to both the Project and the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, and ...
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.
By Eimear McBride Perversely, considering the novel’s refusal to stop, The Unnamable arrived at the end of a beginning for Samuel Beckett, or of a second beginning anyway. Having commenced his ...
Courtesy of Tourism Northern Ireland In James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” Leopold Bloom remarks that it would be a good puzzle to cross Dublin without passing a pub. Colm Quilligan, founder of the ...
DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — Dublin’s Bridge Park could soon be home to a lavish holiday market inspired by those taking place each Christmas in Germany. The city of Dublin hired Town Square ...
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 ...
Emma Donoghue is interviewed for the Me, Myself and Ireland feature ... Malone Dies and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett. This weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer is James by Percival Everett ...
DESSIE Farrell has been boosted by the reported return of John Small to the Dublin panel. As recently as March 6, Ciarán Kilkenny had implied that it was unlikely Small would be back in blue at ...