“As if to make up for the lack of information about the past, he reads me passages of the Irish writers that he loves—Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and W.B. Yeats—in his Irish lilt (“To a Child Dancing in the Wind” is his favourite poem)”
The Iraqi Suitcase by Laura Waddington
Source: Footage of Samuel Beckett sitting, 1969 and 1982. Manufacturing Intellect (YouTube)