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23/05/2026

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13/04/2026

Today marks Beckett's 120th birthday. We look forward to gathering on Saturday at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute to celebrate this milestone and more.

On this occasion, the Samuel Beckett Laboratory will present the first trilingual reading of "Mittelalterliches Dreieck," a work-in-progress of the text's fully staged performance for the Antwerp Beckett Society conference in May of 2026. It will be followed by a conversation with members of the ensemble about the project's implications.

What is "Mittelalterliches Dreieck"?
In August of 1936, while based in his father's office at 6 Clare Street just across from the National Gallery in Dublin, Samuel Beckett wrote a few pages of dialogue in German under the heading "Mittelalterliches Dreieck", or "Medieval Triangle." The piece is not well known outside of Beckett scholarship. He took inspiration from the writings of Ariosto, and concocted a love triangle and an ironically aborted duel, complete with a horse, a dramatic situation that might confound those familiar with his later theatrical aesthetics. Yet as we study the literary and embodied relationships in this short fragment, we find that by performing the work and experimenting with it across languages with a diverse ensemble, it yields fascinating possibilities for investigation.

This event is kindly supported by Trinity College Dublin's Department of Drama, Ambassade de France en Irlande and Goethe-Institut Irland.

10/04/2026

🇮🇪👩‍🎓🧑‍💻⏳📖📝 How to facilitate students’ journeys in an archive? What kind of connections do such material encounters enable and what kind of bridges can they build? The second panel of the Beckett Brunch will address those questions from a range of perspectives. More details below. ⬇️

To lead us gently into such pedagogical considerations, MPhil student and artist Lillian Mooney will open the panel with an embodied performance and discussion of a Beckett doodle she discovered on the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. We will then hear from two Trinity Librarians, Helen Bradley and Margaret Masterson, as well as Erasmus students Sarah Collet and Findus Scheuerling about Beckettian material pedagogies in the “Beckett Beyond” module (4th year, Drama). They will reflect on their teaching and learning in the archive, on how Beckettian archival materials speak to students across languages, cultures, and spaces, and how students contribute to ongoing archival stories through the creation of research zines, collected in the permanent collection of the Trinity Library.

📲👀This event is sold out, but some tickets may become available again, so keep an eye out on the Eventbrite page: https://shorturl.at/szMLq

08/04/2026

📰💿🎞️🖼️🇫🇷 What do you collect in your personal archive and why? Have you ever visited an archive? What was it like? Or which one would you like to go to? Join us at the Beckett Brunch to discuss such questions. Our second event of the day is a roundtable about "Beckettian Travels into Personal Archives in Ussy-sur-Marne."

⬇️ The roundtable description and the Brunch programme are available below.
📲 Some tickets are left on our Eventbrite page: https://shorturl.at/szMLq

The Beckett Collection of the Trinity Library is composed of a myriad of documents – ranging from notebooks to typescripts, and photographs to letters – acquired or donated from personal archives. Gathered together, those documents tell a story about Beckett and his legacy that keeps reshaping how we understand the artist and his oeuvre, and that stages an encounter between material memory and extended imagination.
Amongst many questions, this archive prompts us to reflect on the discursive process of memory-making: what do we choose to collect and what do we decide not to collect? What does it tell about those collected AND REJECTED materials? And what does an archive say about us?
Louis Musnier (a neighbour of Beckett in Ussy-sur-Marne now living in the Touraine), Jane Maxwell (the curator of the Beckett Collection) and Céline Thobois-Gupta (a Beckett scholar) will discuss the spectral presence of Beckett in archives, archival traces of his travels across France, and of own journeys with Beckett through archival encounters. This roundtable will conclude with the donation of Marie-Madeleine Musnier’s archive to the Trinity Library, adding to the Collection a new category of artefacts, extending the dialogue between memory, imagination and their materiality. This panel is in memory of Marie-Madeleine Musnier, who passed away in January 2026.

02/04/2026

🇩🇪🚢🚉📃📖🖋️ Wondering what you'll hear about in the first panel of the Beckett Brunch "Beckett’s Trips to Germany: a View from the Archive?" Here is the answer, and don't forget to get your tickets!
📲https://shorturl.at/szMLq

Samuel Beckett’s life and work was profoundly shaped by his engagement with German culture. Following on from his early visits in the late 1920s and early 1930s to his relatives, the Sinclairs, in Kassel, Samuel Beckett would continue to travel to Germany over a period of more than 50 years. These trips can broadly be separated into two periods: his six-month journey through Germany in 1936–37, and his television work at the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Stuttgart between 1966 and 1985 (which sits alongside his theatre productions at the Schiller Theater in Berlin between 1967 and 1978). This panel, led by Galina Kiryushina (Lecturer in Literature at the Anglo-American University, Prague) and Mark Nixon (Professor of Modern Literature and Beckett Studies), will offer illustrated presentations that discuss his 1936–37 trip and his work in Stuttgart, drawing on unpublished material found in various archives. As such the two talks on this panel will give an insight into the way Germany and German culture played a pivotal role in Beckett’s artistic journey.

29/03/2026

It's time to check the exciting programme of the Beckett Brunch 2026 in Dublin and to get your free tickets.
📲Tickets & more details at https://shorturl.at/szMLq
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🇮🇪 Beckett, Travel and Archive
🇫🇷 Beckett, voyages et archives
🇩🇪 Beckett, Reisen und Archive

🗓️Saturday 18 April, 10 am – 2 pm
📍Trinity Long Room Hub, Dublin
🎊 All welcome, free event

18/03/2026

Save the date and spread the word: the Beckett Brunch is back in Dublin on 18 April 2026.

This free public event will explore the theme “Beckett, Travel and Archive” to commemorate Beckett’s 1936–7 trip to Germany, his 1926 bike tour in France, and the centenary of his degree in Trinity. Join us for what promises to be a thought-provoking and friendly time together around a Franco-German brunch.

The event will take place in person at the Trinity Long Room Hub, where everyone is warmly welcome. Mark your calendars and follow our page, where the programme and tickets will be released soon: www.facebook.com/BeckettBrunch/.

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