Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading Join us this year for Beckett Week at the University of Reading! If you’re a fan of Beckett’s work, there will be something…Read More >
Creative Fellowship
Where am I in all of this? — Musician and composer Tim Parkinson reflects on Beckett’s work and archive
In May 2018, the musician and composer Tim Parkinson began work as the Beckett Centre’s second Creative Fellow. As an experimental composer Tim is very much aware of the tradition…Read More >
Announcing ‘Mouthpieces’ by Eimear McBride
We’re thrilled to announce that ‘Mouthpieces’, the new work by Eimear McBride, written during her inaugural Creative Fellowship at the Samuel Beckett Research Centre, has recently been broadcast by RTE…Read More >
Beckett Week 2018 (22-24 November)
Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance Q&A with award-winning novelist, Eimear McBride Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Beckett International Foundation Registration is now open for our annual Beckett…Read More >
** Announcing… Beckett Week 2018
Explore the influence of Beckett’s work and enjoy unparalleled access to his manuscripts! Beckett Week 2018 will take place at the University of Reading in the penultimate week of November…Read More >
Eimear McBride talks about Samuel Beckett on RTE Radio 1
https://soundcloud.com/thebookshow/tbs-s5-2-eimear-mcbride-on-samuel-beckett Award-winning novelist and inaugural Beckett Fellow, Eimear McBride, has made a radio programme with RTE Dublin about the Samuel Beckett archive at the University of Reading. The programme…Read More >
Where to begin? — Eimear McBride’s Evolving Relationship with Beckett’s Work
Eimear McBride is an award-winning novelist whose debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (2013) won her the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, the Desmond…Read More >