Maeve Binchy on meeting Samuel Beckett

An article first published in 1980

Original feature in The Irish Times, published Wednesday, 14 May 1980

The Irish Times has republished an article by Maeve Binchy, recounting her experience meeting the writer and playwright Samuel Beckett in London, 1980: 'Beckett looks 54 not 74; he looks like a Frenchman, not an Irishman, and he certainly looks more like a man about to go off and do a day’s hard manual work rather than direct one of his own plays for a cast which looks on him as a messiah come to rehearsal.' [Read More]

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