Vitro Nasu

Seamus Heaney ( Putting Feelings into Words)

Photo of Samuel Beckett by Steve Schapiro

Beckett was asked by a reporter how a small country like Ireland could have produced so many great writers since the last half of the nineteenth century.

“It’s the priests and the British, Beckett replied tersely. “They have buggered us into existence. After all, when you are in the last bloody ditch, there is nothing left but to sing.” (Page 282, A biography of Samuel Beckett by Deirdre Bair.)

Samuel Beckett Archive

Digital image by Fung Lin Hall
(Kitch invades the sacred land or Our Lady of the Desert)

Happy St Patick’s Day (See Frank McCourt and other Irish luminaries)

High Hopes in Ireland (see Irish art here)

The wind that shakes the Barley

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