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How Irish kindness in a war-ravaged French town inspired unknown writer Samuel Beckett

Short poem in The Irish Times was too obscure for some, but Beckett’s time in Saint-Lô warranted a verse with deep meaning

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#1219
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21 Aug 2026, 04:04 UTC
Last checked
21 Aug 2026, 11:34 UTC
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Publisher
The Irish Times
Country
Ireland
Source published
20 Aug 2026, 18:00 UTC
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Byline
Frank McNally
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Short poem in The Irish Times was too obscure for some, but Beckett’s time in Saint-Lô warranted a verse with deep meaning
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    How Irish kindness in a war-ravaged French town inspired unknown writer Samuel Beckett

    Short poem in The Irish Times was too obscure for some, but Beckett’s time in Saint-Lô warranted a verse with deep meaning

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#707
Observed
21 Aug 2026, 04:04 UTC
HTTP result
200 / parsed
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591,050 bytes, private gzip evidence
Collector
news-ledger/0.1
Public boundary
metadata and excerpt