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The Latest Breaking News from Samuel Beckett

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

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

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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.

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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

The Guardian - 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.

The Independent UK

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