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Ulster History Circle, Portora Royal School, County Fermanagh, Ireland. Samuel Beckett, 1920-1923. A boy in that classroom may have imagined silence before he wrote it. The plaque leaves the rest to memory.

This blue commemorative plaque records: Samuel Beckett 1906-1989 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature at school 1920-1923 Recorded plaque organisation: Ulster History Circle.

Samuel Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, and poet, known for his existential works such as "Waiting for Godot" and "Endgame," which earned him the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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