Eh Joe
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Eh Joe is a piece for television, written in English by Samuel Beckett, his first work for the medium. It was begun on the author's fifty-ninth birthday, 13 April 1965, and completed by 1 May. "It fol
First edition: Faber, 1967, showing Jack MacGowran
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic epi
Beckett in 1977
Beckett's residence at Trinity College Dublin, pictured in 2021
Samuel Beckett Walk in Paris
Portrait of Samuel Beckett by Reginald Gray, painted in Paris, 1961 (from the collection of Ken White, Dublin)