Editing Samuel Beckett (section)

==Early life==
Samuel Barclay Beckett was born in the [[Dublin]] suburb of [[Foxrock]] on 13 April 1906, the son of William Frank Beckett (1871{{ndash}}1933), a [[quantity surveyor]] of [[Huguenots|Huguenot]] descent, and Maria Jones Roe, a nurse. His parents were both 35 when he was born,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc7.htm |title=Samuel beckett −1906-1989 |publisher=Imagi-nation.com |access-date=12 December 2013 |archive-date=15 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170715171256/http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc7.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and had married in 1901. Beckett had one elder brother named Frank Edward (1902–1954). At the age of five, he attended a local playschool in Dublin, where he started to learn music, and then moved to Earlsfort House School near [[Harcourt Street]] in Dublin. The Becketts were members of the [[Church of Ireland]]; raised as an [[Anglicanism|Anglican]], Beckett later became [[Agnosticism|agnostic]], a perspective which informed his writing.

[[File:House 39 - 1.jpg|thumb|Beckett's residence at Trinity College Dublin, pictured in 2021]]
Beckett's family home, Cooldrinagh, was a large house and garden complete with a tennis court built in 1903 by Beckett's father. The house and garden, its surrounding countryside where he often went walking with his father, the nearby [[Leopardstown Racecourse]], the Foxrock railway station, and [[Harcourt Street station]] would all feature in his prose and plays.

Around 1919 or 1920, he went to [[Portora Royal School]] in [[Enniskillen]], which [[Oscar Wilde]] had also attended. He left in 1923 and entered [[Trinity College Dublin]], where he studied [[Literary modernism|modern literature]] and Romance languages, and received his bachelor's degree in 1927. A natural athlete, he excelled at [[cricket]] as a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-pace [[Bowling (cricket)|bowler]]. Later, he played for [[Dublin University Cricket Club|Dublin University]] and played two [[First-class cricket|first-class]] games against [[Northamptonshire County Cricket Club|Northamptonshire]].<ref name="wisden">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ireland/content/player/24553.html|title=Samuel Beckett|website=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|publisher=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|access-date=6 March 2011|archive-date=21 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110421021033/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ireland/content/player/24553.html|url-status=live}}</ref> As a result, he became the only Nobel literature laureate to have played first-class cricket and thus to appear in Wisden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154150.html|title=Never a famous cricketer|last=Rice|first=Jonathan|year=2001|website=Wisden|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=6 March 2011|archive-date=8 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108095013/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154150.html|url-status=live}}</ref>