<p>Ireland, and in particular Dublin, was Samuel Beckett's cradle, a place, in Eoin O'Brien's words, he revisited 'with the same intensity that Proust went back to Combray'. It was fitting, then, shortly after Beckett's death, that his birthplace ? through the good offices of the Gate Theatre, Trinity College and Radió Telefís Éireann ? should have decided to honour the 1969 Nobel prize-winner by staging all of his d...