Do Joseph O'Connor and Samuel Beckett share the same nationality?
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Joseph O'Connor Joseph Victor O'Connor is an Irish novelist. His 2002 historical novel "Star of the Sea" was an international number one bestseller. Before success as an author he was a journalist with the "Sunday Tribune" newspaper and "Esquire magazine". He is a regular contributor to Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). He is a member of the Irish artists' association Aosdána.
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Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett ( ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French.
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Lessness (short story) "Lessness" is a short story by Samuel Beckett originally written in French as "Sans" in 1969, and later translated into English by the author. It was partly inspired by John Cage and the experimental music of the 1960s. The story was included in a book of short stories under the title "Friendship" launched in 1990 to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the kidnapping in Beirut of the British television journalist John McCarthy.
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LÉ James Joyce (P62) LÉ "James Joyce" (P62) is a "Samuel Beckett"-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) which was built by Babcock Marine Appledore for the Irish Naval Service. Although questioned by some descendants of the author, the ship was named for writer James Joyce.
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A. B. Yehoshua Abraham B. Yehoshua (Hebrew: א.ב. יהושע‎ ‎ , born December 19, 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, published as A. B. Yehoshua. The "New York Times" called him the "Israeli Faulkner."
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More Pricks Than Kicks More Pricks Than Kicks is a collection of short prose by Samuel Beckett, first published in 1934. It contains extracts from his earlier novel, "Dream of Fair to Middling Women" (for which he was unable to find a publisher), as well as other short stories.
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Joyce Cary Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957) was an Irish novelist.
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Margaret Beckett Dame Margaret Mary Beckett, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (née Jackson; born 15 January 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South since 1983. She was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith from 1992 to 1994, and briefly served as Leader of the Labour Party after Smith died suddenly. She later served in the Cabinet under Prime Minister Tony Blair in a number of roles, becoming Britain's first female Foreign Secretary in 2006.
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Joseph Hislop Joseph Hislop (5 April 18846 May 1977) was a Scottish lyric tenor who appeared in opera and oratorio and gave concerts around the world. He sang at La Scala, Milan, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, and the Opéra-Comique, Paris, as well as forging a remarkable career in Denmark and Sweden, where he was made a Knight of the Dannebrog and a Knight of the Order of Vasa. He toured America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand on several occasions and made a large number of recordings, some of which are available on CD re-issues. Hislop is notable for having been the final teacher of the Swedish tenor Jussi Björling and for developing a number of fine British singers through his post-War work at the Guildhall School of Music and at Sadler's Wells. After retiring to Fife, he taught the Scottish baritone Donald Maxwell.
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Edwin O'Connor Edwin O'Connor (July 29, 1918 – March 23, 1968) was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel "The Edge of Sadness" (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests.
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Frank J. Hugh O'Donnell Frank J. Hugh O'Donnell (4 April 1894 – 4 November 1976) was an Irish critic, playwright and politician.
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Breath (play) Breath is a notably short stage work by Samuel Beckett. An altered version was first included in Kenneth Tynan's revue "Oh! Calcutta!", at the Eden Theatre in New York City on June 16, 1969. The UK premiere was at the Close Theatre Club in Glasgow in October 1969; this was the first performance of the text as written. The second performance, and the English premiere, was at a benefit held at the Oxford Playhouse on March 8, 1970. “The first accurate publication appeared in "Gambit" 4.16 (1969): 5–9, with a manuscript facsimile.”
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Joseph Reed (playwright) Joseph Reed (March 1723 – 15 August 1787) was an English playwright and poet known for his 1761 farce "The Register Office" and the 1769 comic opera adaptation of Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones".
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Samuel James Arnold Samuel James Arnold (1774–1852) was an English dramatist and theatrical manager. Under his management the Lyceum Theatre, London became the English Opera House, and staged the first English productions of many operas, including in 1824 Carl Maria von Weber's "Der Freischütz".
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Andy Beckett Andy Beckett (born 1969) is a British journalist and historian. He writes for "The Guardian", the "London Review of Books" and "The New York Times" magazine.
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Krapp's Last Tape Krapp's Last Tape is a one-act play, in English, by Samuel Beckett. With a cast of one man, it was written for Northern Irish actor Patrick Magee and first titled "Magee monologue". It was inspired by Beckett's experience of listening
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Arthur William à Beckett Arthur William à Beckett (25 October 1844 – 14 January 1909) was an English journalist and intellectual.
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Gabriel Mourey Marie Gabriel Mourey (23 September 1865 – 10 February 1943) was a French novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, translator and art critic.
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Samuel Kane Samuel Kane (né McGlashan; born 30 November 1968) is a British actor, who has appeared on "Brookside", "Coronation Street" and "Emmerdale".
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Beckett on Film Beckett on Film was a project aimed at making film versions of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett's stage plays, with the exception of the early and unperformed "Eleutheria". This endeavour was successfully completed, with the first films being shown in 2001.
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Steven Connor Steven Connor (born 1955) is Grace 2 Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was formerly the academic director of the London Consortium and professor of modern literature and theory at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Thomas James O'Leary Thomas James O'Leary (born June 21, 1956) is an American actor. O'Leary began his acting career on the theater stage in New York, broadening to Broadway theaters, and finally to film and television.