10th Anniversary Festival Opening Lecture: Robert Northridge
Thursday 21st July
The Steele Hall, Enniskillen Royal Grammar School, Fermanagh
‘Portora, the First Great War, “the rat of a mathematician” & Samuel Becket
Robert Northridge MBE (Speaker)
Duration 40 mins
Ticket Price £5
To mark 100 years since Samuel Beckett attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen (1920-23) Robert Northridge, a former Portora Royal School teacher and respected local botanist will look at the impact of the time and town on the young Samuel Beckett’s schooldays in the aftermath of The Great War and during the Irish Civil War.
This event is kindly sponsored by 10th Anniversary Silver Patron John Brady
