Cutting peat near Glenveagh

Samuel Beckett said, 'for god's sake don't act' to the actress chosen to play the lead in Beckett's one person play, "Not I." (You may YouTube Billie Whitelaw performing the piece). In a rest home for the aged in Paris, Beckett complained about the food, saying the home served 'too much meat.' A golfer, he dreamed of shots he'd hit and holes he'd played when he couldn't sleep, which was often when he was in his prime as an insomniac. Beckett learned to play golf whilst attending Portora Boarding School, Enniskillen, the boarding school school Oscar Wilde attended fifty years prior to Beckett. By the time Beckett was attending Portora Wilde had already written, "For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce." Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, was Charlie Chaplin's father-in-law, a relationship that vexed him, there being 40 years between Chaplin and his bride. Van Morrison, singer, was born in Belfast, Ireland. His given name is Ivan. After living in America, Morrison's returned to Ireland at age 70 or so. It's true that you can drive from the west coast of Ireland to the east coast on half a tank of gas, but making a full circle of the place is impossible, as Ireland's an island and islands never begin or end,