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  1. According to his birth certificate, playwright and novelist, Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, Co Dublin on 13 May 1906. Throughout his life, he insisted his birth was on Good Friday - 13 April 1906. He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #SamuelBeckett #NobelPrizeInLiterature #Dublin #Foxrock #OnThisDay

  2. 1954 – Telephone Exchange, Foxrock, Co. Dublin
    Architect: Seymour Rice & Bertie Banahan, Office of Public Works

    Telephone exchange built for the Department of Post & Telegraphs. A low-key modernist building with a shallow roof profile clad with copper. The architects Seymour Rice
    archiseek.com/1954-telephone-e
    #ArchitectureOfDunLaoghaireRathdown #1954 #BertieBanahan #BoardOfPublicWorksOfficeOfPublicWorks #CoDublin #Foxrock #SeymourRice

  3. 1954 – Telephone Exchange, Foxrock, Co. Dublin
    Architect: Seymour Rice & Bertie Banahan, Office of Public Works

    Telephone exchange built for the Department of Post & Telegraphs. A low-key modernist building with a shallow roof profile clad with copper. The architects Seymour Rice
    archiseek.com/1954-telephone-e
    #ArchitectureOfDunLaoghaireRathdown #1954 #BertieBanahan #BoardOfPublicWorksOfficeOfPublicWorks #CoDublin #Foxrock #SeymourRice

  4. According to his birth certificate, playwright and novelist, Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, Co Dublin on 13th May 1906. Throughout his life, he insisted his birth was on Good Friday - 13 April 1906. He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #SamuelBeckett #NobelPrizeInLiterature #Dublin #Foxrock #OnThisDay

  5. According to his birth certificate, playwright and novelist, Samuel Beckett was born in Foxrock, Co Dublin on 13th May 1906. Throughout his life, he insisted his birth was on Good Friday - 13 April 1906. He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which — in new forms for the novel and drama — in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation".

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #SamuelBeckett #NobelPrizeInLiterature #Dublin #Foxrock #OnThisDay