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Information and Guide to Anglo-Irish writer Samuel Beckett created and maintained in Dublin, Ireland

Born at Cooldrinagh in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock, near Leopardstown Racecourse, and the Foxrock railway station.

Beckett attended a local kindergarten where he first started to learn music and then moved to Earlsford House School in the city centre near Harcourt Street. He was to play for Dublin University and played two first-class games against Northamptonshire.



From 1923 to 1927, he studied Romance languages at Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his bachelor's degree.

At number 8 Clare Street Samuel Beckett's father had a building consultancy business, and because Samuel was continually having altercations with his mother, he once spent a week living in the attic room of this house working on his writings.

He returned to Ireland in 1930 to take up a post as lecturer in French at Trinity College, but after only four terms he resigned, in December 1931.

In 1945 he returned to Ireland but volunteered for the Irish Red Cross and was back in France as an interpreter in a military hospital in Saint-Lô, Normandy.