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Q&A: Can Dublin Port revamp project make the capital feel like a maritime city again?

Irish Independent 24 Mar 2023
... reputation for anti-social behaviour.“We are seeing gangs… congregating on the Samuel Beckett Bridge, coming over the North Quays and into the George’s Dock area,” local Fine Gael councillor Ray McAdam warned on Newstalk radio last November.
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Can Dublin Port revamp project make the capital feel like a maritime city again?

Irish Independent 24 Mar 2023
... reputation for anti-social behaviour.“We are seeing gangs… congregating on the Samuel Beckett Bridge, coming over the North Quays and into the George’s Dock area,” local Fine Gael councillor Ray McAdam warned on Newstalk radio last November.
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Eight Irish women writers who match up with Joyce and Yeats

Irish Central 22 Mar 2023
Who comes to mind when we think about Irish writers? James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and Samuel Beckett. Let us be the ones to remind of some great Irish women writers you might should delve in to ... .
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Israeli dramatist Hanoch Levin’s ‘Yaacobi & Leidental’ in U.S. premiere

People's World 22 Mar 2023
LOS ANGELES — Dear Reader, please indulge me for a moment to tell you my favorite Jewish joke—and it won’t be the only time in this review that I’ll be bordering on the politically incorrect.. Two Jews meet on the street ... “friar”) ... The New Jew ... It’s an exciting piece that’s hard to typify, falling somewhere between Samuel Beckett and Woody Allen.” ... .
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Cillian Murphy cast in Small Things Like These

Maryville Daily Forum 21 Mar 2023
Cillian Murphy is to star in 'Small Things Like These'. The 'Peaky Blinders' actor has been cast in the adaptation of Claire Keegan's novel that has been green-lit by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's production company Artists Equity ... Cillian said ... He said ... That, to me, is drama ... [the playwright Samuel] Beckett is funny; Enda [Walsh] is very funny ... .
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Emerald Isle shines with many a fine novel

The Daily Star 20 Mar 2023
For those who can’t get enough Irish American history and heritage, you’re not alone. The Library of Congress has a section on immigration and relocation in U.S. history with a chapter on the Irish. In colonial times, the Irish population in America was exceeded only by the British ... Yeats, Bram Stoker, Maeve Binchy, Jonathan Swift and Samuel Beckett ... .
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Hunger is a good sauce at hurling’s top table

Irish Independent 19 Mar 2023
“We could talk about a good comeback from Galway, the importance of getting a win, but is there any real point in talking about taking anything out of that game?” Joanne was channelling her inner Samuel Beckett here, pondering the futility of it all; which ...
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The celebrity men AND women who have had hair transplants from Jimmy Carr to Wayne Rooney

The Daily Mail 18 Mar 2023
Aged just 23-years-old Owen Warner is the latest star to undergo a hair transplant ... Hollyoaks star Owen put landing some of his TV roles down to his good looks but has been left 'conscious' of his receding hairline ... Changes ... 'You look at Samuel Beckett when he was older, Richard Harris, but I think with younger men it seems to be a big pressure.' ... .
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Lucky enough

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 17 Mar 2023
While today's calendar holiday bears the name of Ireland's patron saint, it's become more a celebration of Irish culture, history and traditions than a tribute to the man himself ... St ... Contemporaries like Oscar Wilde, and later talents such as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney and Frank McCourt also achieved global accolades ... Slainté to you! ... .
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Join the craic on St Patrick's Day, but cool the drunk jokes

RNZ 16 Mar 2023
Ah, St Patrick’s Day, the day when all the stereotypes about the Irish are rolled out. You know the ones – Ireland is a green land populated by redheaded leprechauns and drunks dressed in Aran jumpers who spend their days fighting (preferably the Brits) and praying ... Yeats, James Joyce, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde ... Finally, food ... ....
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No sign of returning

Dawn 15 Mar 2023
WHEN it comes to the much-anticipated but delayed homecoming of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, the conversations being had by members of the party are reminiscent of scenes from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, in which the protagonists spend all their time waiting for someone who does not show up ... Published in Dawn, March 15th, 2023. .
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Today’s daily horoscope for March 15, 2023

NJ 15 Mar 2023
Venus Offers an Invitation to Burn. It’s the last day of Venus in Aries, so you have a few hours left to use the bright flame of this aspect. Make a mess of it! Expecting yourself to do well can keep you from doing anything. So lower the expectation and have some fun seeing what you can do. As Samuel Beckett said, “Go on failing. Go on ... PISCES (Feb ... 22).
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CRAIG BROWN: Don’t let’s be beastly to The Beatles...unless your name is Noel Coward

The Daily Mail 14 Mar 2023
Sir Noel Coward, master of tremendously witty plays and songs, died 50 years ago this month. He was born in 1899, the same year as Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations had its first performance ... Three years later, he described two Pinter plays as ‘completely incomprehensible and insultingly boring.’ Of Samuel Beckett, he commented ... Pictured ... ... .

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