If Samuel Beckett had written “Groundhog Day,” it might read ... achievement of Danish fiction that decade. A few minor works, mostly collections of short prose, followed and then — nothing.

Irish Repertory Theatre will present Not Beckett, an international rolling premiere of five new short plays presented as staged readings. Learn more and see how to attend.

A four-week webinar series produced by Boston College is exploring the lives and works of the four Irishborn winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel ...