{"id":402889,"date":"2026-04-17T05:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402889\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:31:10","slug":"donal-fallon-if-any-sport-warrants-a-re-evaluation-in-ireland-its-samuel-becketts-beloved-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402889\/","title":{"rendered":"Donal Fallon: If any sport warrants a re-evaluation in Ireland, it\u2019s Samuel Beckett\u2019s beloved cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Dramatist was a fervent player at Trinity and a \u2018solid rather than spectacular bat\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photographer John Minihan with a print of his famous photo of Samuel Beckett. Photo: SH Bean\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/22630cfb-db9b-4ef3-9323-619b618c263f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Photographer John Minihan with a print of his famous photo of Samuel Beckett. Photo: SH Bean<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Whatever about the trend of colourising photos, it would be unwise to add hues to the images by photographer John Minihan that are on display in the National Gallery of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The exhibition marks the 80th birthday of one of Ireland\u2019s most renowned photographers, and the star attraction is a series of images of Samuel Beckett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dramatist was a fervent player at Trinity and a \u2018solid rather than spectacular bat\u2019 Photographer John Minihan with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8755,61,60,4174,12109,43,15120],"class_list":{"0":"post-402889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-irish-rugby-football-union-irfu","12":"tag-martin-mcguinness","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-trinity-college-dublin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}