John Banville, Christy Nolan, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Annie West are among the writers and artists featured in a new exhibition showcasing new treasures acquired by the Library.
One small island, one giant treasure trove of artistic talent. The island of Ireland has had four Nobel Prize laureates in ...
Trinity Library is renowned for its medieval collections, but a new exhibition, which opened last night, showcases new ...
Europe is a hub for quality education with over 50 countries offering diverse learning opportunities. From vibrant cities to ...
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The Polymath of Pittsburgh
Though born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Lutz wields the English language like a polymath émigré—Nabokov if Nabokov ...
Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney—in cast bronze by internationally noted Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie. The piece was commissioned and donated by former BC Trustee and Burns Library benefactor Brian P.
The best obituaries, those that are most enjoyable to read, juxtapose obvious public accomplishments with the sheer strangeness of people’s lives.
A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...
Profiling some of Ireland’s literary greats, both past and present, new treasures include pieces by Bram Stoker, Samuel Beckett, Christy Nolan, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Jessica Traynor and John ...
“I learned sort of fairly early on that I felt rather confident onstage,” she told Andrew MacKay in a 2010 British Library interview ... Ionesco and Samuel Beckett. Many of the people ...
Every few years, the Black Library – that’s the name of Games ... of roasting a captured Guardsman a lá The Hobbit, or A Samuel Beckett-esque conversation between two prisoners in a ...
When Samuel Beckett died, his British publisher, John Calder, and his biographer, James Knowlson, teamed up to recall the death-obsessed author of “Waiting for Godot.” Prominent figures from ...