The Tailor (Ronan Wilmot) and Ansty (Nuala Hayes)
Yesterday was one of those days you don’t expect.
I somehow got into a discussion with some elderly people who were defensive about the good old days and the sense of spirit and community they experienced in the Ireland of the forties and fifties (and probably up [...]

The National Library of Ireland has described as a “major boost for Irish scholars” its acquisition of an extensive collection of 800 printed and other items by and about Samuel Beckett.
see report in The Irish Times

I’ve missed a lot of things of late, for various reasons, but perhaps the event I most regret missing was Letting Go of That Which You Most Ardently Desire.
It was devised by Mannix Flynn and his Far Cry Productions company, and one of the reasons I missed it was that I didn’t quite appreciate the [...]

Elaine Keogh in The Irish Times (subscription) alerts us to performances of two plays by Samuel Beckett inside the Fourknocks megalithic tomb in Co Meath, which, like Newgrange and other tombs in the area, is 5,000 years old.
“Stones, Bones and Beckett” will feature A Piece of Monologue and Breath, directed by Louise Kennedy, and [...]