beckett's ireland
"Reassured that he is not one of 'the little green men' from outer space, although he holds the green passport of the Emerland Isle, we can begin to understand Beckett by going back to his Irish roots, the soil that nourished them, and the landscape in its varied and violent beauty his mature writing assumes." - Mary Junker, Beckett: The Irish Dimension
"The ghost at the feast: Beckett and Irish Studies"
by Rónán McDonald
"He has travelled farther than most men towards the centre of his own being; more important still, he has been able to come back and 'record his findings.' We who read his books and watch his plays have been able to recognise ourselves in this or that part of his findings and thus are or ought to be prepared to take the rest on truth. Beckett's universality, in the last analysis, does not depend on impartriation or expatriation, on Irishness, Frenchness or cosmopolitanism: it depends on the paradox of a unique self that has found its bedrock in our common human predicament." - Mercier, Beckett/Beckett
"Ireland/Europe...Beckett/Beckett"
by Seán Kennedy
"Samuel Beckett and the Countertradition" by John P. Harrington | The Cambrdige Companion to Twentieth Century Irish Drama
"SINGING IN THE LAST DITCH: Beckett's Irish Rebel Songs" by Rod Sharkey | Samuel Beckett Today