During the 20th century, certain Irish intellectuals made their homes in continental Europe, particularly James Joyce, and later Samuel Beckett ( who became a courier for the French Resistance ).

They collaborated on several projects that became catalysts in the development of an environmentally sensitive approach to design – including the Samuel Beckett Theatre project.

Other notable alumni include Margaret Beckett, a politician who in 2006 became Foreign Secretary.

In the 2006 reshuffle, Margaret Beckett became the first ( and only ) woman to hold the post.

* Beckett's Catastrophe – dedicated to then-imprisoned Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 Velvet Revolution – was first performed at the Avignon Festival on July 21, 1982 ; the film version ( in Beckett on Film ) was directed by David Mamet and performed by Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

Inspired both by American free jazz and by the radical, abstract music of AMM, as well as influences as diverse as Anton Webern and Samuel Beckett ( two Stevens touchstones ), the SME kept at least a measure of jazz in their sound, though this became less audible in the later " string " ensembles.

Beckett was “ enthusiastically in favour ” of Jack MacGowran as a replacement but he also became unavailable.

Founded by Steve Beckett and the late Rob Mitchell from their experiences working at the FON record shop, alongside record producer Robert Gordon, the label ( whose name was chosen because the original name, ' Warped Records ' was difficult to distinguish over the telephone ) soon became home to artists who would be influential in electronic music.

Tony Blair became the leader of the Labour Party in 1994, after winning 57 % of the vote in that year's leadership election, defeating John Prescott and Margaret Beckett.

After Labour's victory in the 1997 general election, Beckett became a member of Tony Blair's Cabinet.

Following the sudden death of John Smith from a heart attack on 12 May 1994, Margaret Beckett became Labour leader, the Party's constitution providing for the automatic succession of the deputy leader for the remainder of the leadership term, upon the death or resignation of an incumbent leader in opposition.

After the 2001 general election, Beckett became Secretary of State at the new Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, created after the old Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was abolished in the wake of perceived mismanagement of the foot and mouth disease epidemic in 2001.

It was announced on 29 January 2008 that Beckett would become the new head of the Prime Minister's Intelligence and Security Committee, replacing Paul Murphy, who became the Secretary of State for Wales.

In 1998 he became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Beckett.

Beckett became one of six Boston Red Sox pitchers in history to win their first 7 starts.

The café became a haunt for some of Ireland ’ s most famous literary and artistic figures, including James Joyce ( who mentioned the cafe in his book “ Dubliners ”), Patrick Kavanagh, Samuel Beckett and Sean O ’ Casey.

In 2001 he was returned with an increased majority of 6, 300 and became the PPS to Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett, but resigned in 2003 in protest at the Government's decision to support a US-led invasion of Iraq without a United Nations resolution.

He became a partner in the banking firm of Beckett & Co, of Leeds.

He was a partner in the Leeds firm of Beckett & Co., which later became part of the Westminster Bank, and in the aeronautical firm Airspeed Ltd. His racehorses included Fortina, which won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1947, and Fragrant Mac, which won the Scottish Grand National in 1952.

Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell became the first duo to each get a World Series MVP by winning a World Series with one team in the American League and the other in the National League.

Sister Wendy Beckett ( born 25 February 1930 ), commonly known as just Sister Wendy, is a South African-born British nun, art expert, consecrated virgin and contemplative hermit who became well known in the 1990s presenting a series of art history documentaries for the BBC.

In 1991 the Gate became the first theatre in history to launch a full retrospective of the nineteen stage plays of Samuel Beckett.

He lived at Beckett Hall in Shrivenham ( now in Oxfordshire ) and soon afterwards, his official residence became Longworth House in nearby Longworth.

Beckett became a prolific child and young adult actor from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

* Josh Beckett ( 2001 – 2005 ) — Beckett was drafted by the Marlins in the first round ( 2nd overall ) of the 1999 Amateur Draft.

Both theories were taken into account in Donaldson v Beckett, as well as in the drafting of the Statute of Anne, and Deene infers that they subsequently had an impact on the Belgian debates over their first copyright statute.

'" " The bowler hat was of course de rigueur for male persons in many social contexts when Beckett was growing up in Foxrock ( when he first came back with his beret ... his mother suggested that he was letting the family down by not wearing a bowler ), and father commonly wore one.

Beckett originally intended to call Estragon " Lévy " but when Pozzo questions him he gives his name as " Magrégor, André " and also responds to " Catulle " in French or " Catullus " in the first Faber edition.

In the first stage production, which Beckett oversaw, both are " more shabby-genteel than ragged ... Vladimir at least is capable of being scandalised ... on a matter of etiquette when Estragon begs for chicken bones or money.

Beckett himself said the emphasis should be on the first syllable, and that the North American pronunciation is a mistake.

In the Quantum Leap episode " The Great Spontini ", Scott Bakula's character, Dr. Sam Beckett, leaps into an amateur magician in 1974 who aspires to appear on Bill Bixby's The Magician ; however, owing to his partial amnesia, Dr. Beckett, at first, can only recall Bixby's connection with The Incredible Hulk, which had not been made at that time.

B. Nicholson, and, especially, George Gilbert Scott and Edmund Beckett, first Baron Grimthorpe.

In the first ( 1961 ) edition, Esslin presented the four defining playwrights of the movement as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet, and in subsequent editions he added a fifth playwright, Harold Pinter – although each of these writers has unique preoccupations and characteristics that go beyond the term " absurd.

* On the October 28 of that year, Krapp's Last Tape by Beckett was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

This is not the first time Beckett has used light to symbolise existence: “ They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it ’ s night once more .” The protagonist is nameless, he is Everyman.

Amongst the graduates are included notable people in the fields of arts and sciences like Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett ( Nobel Laureate in Literature ), Ernest Walton ( Nobel Laureate in Physics ), Mairead Maguire ( Nobel Laureate in Peace ), three holders of the office of President of Ireland, and one Premier of New Zealand ( Edward Stafford ); including Jaja Wachuku ( first indigenous Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria and first Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister ).

This reliving of the details surrounding the affair only takes up the first half of the text however ; Beckett called this part the ‘ Narration .’ As Paul Lawley says in " Beckett ’ s dramatic counterpoint: a reading of Play ", “ he second half of the text ( preceded by a five second long blackout ) – called ‘ Meditation ’ by Beckett himself – sheds a subtle new light on the first.

The piece was scored for two soprano saxophones, and is his first work in a minimalist idiom – an idiom which was substantially influenced by the work of Beckett.

It could be tempting to think of O and E as a Beckettian Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – indeed in notes for the first draft Beckett did toy “ with the idea of making ‘ E tall ’ and ‘ O short ( and ) fat ’ which corresponds with the dual physique of Jekyll and Hyde ” – but Film is not concerned with representations of good and evil, only with the concept of the second self, of pursuer and pursued .”

* Josh Beckett, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, owns Herradura Ranch, a deer-hunting enclave located approximately from Cotulla.

Pitchers Josh Beckett, Jon Lester, Eric Gagne, pitching coach John Farrell ( pitcher ) | John Farrell and Schilling prior to a Red Sox game at Safeco Field

Joshua Patrick Beckett ( born May 15, 1980 ) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball.

In a deal that was made official on Thanksgiving Day, 2005, Beckett was traded to the Red Sox along with third baseman Mike Lowell and relief pitcher Guillermo Mota for minor league prospects shortstop Hanley Ramírez and pitchers Aníbal Sánchez, Jesús Delgado and Harvey García.

Josh Beckett was the first Red Sox pitcher to hit a home run in 35 years — since the advent of the designated hitter rule — when he took Phillies ' pitcher Brett Myers deep during an interleague game on May 20, 2006.

Beckett repeated the feat on June 14, 2009 when he homered against Phillies pitcher J. A.

On June 20, 2009, Beckett recorded his first complete game shutout in three years against the Atlanta Braves in a duel against former Red Sox pitcher Derek Lowe.

In the 2005 – 06 offseason, the rivalry between Boston and New York revived the Yankees loss to the Marlins in the 2003 World Series when they traded Josh Beckett, the pitcher who pitched a complete game shutout against the Yankees in the deciding game of the World Series to the Red Sox.

Abreu was involved in an incident with Boston Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett.

Although the Boston Red Sox took on Lowell and his contract largely because the Marlins would not trade pitcher Josh Beckett without relieving themselves of Lowell's salary, Lowell fared better than expected as a member of the 2006 Red Sox, for a time leading the league in doubles and providing solid defense at third base.

* Josh Beckett ( born 1980 ), Major League Baseball pitcher