Two of Beckett's teachers

Thomas Rudmose-Brown was professor of French at TCD whose method of teaching Racine's PHEDRE influenced Becektt both in form and in content. Rudmose-Brown had a fiery spirit, and he was alluded to by his students, including Beckett, as 'character' which locally meant 'eccentric'. Rudmose-Brown threw hilarious parties in his home and he was the only person who could elicit any conversation from Beckett whose habit in parties was to stand alone leaning against the wall in a corner, lowering his head and talking to no one. In Rudmose-Brown's parties, Beckett would sit on the arm of the sofa where Rudmose-Brown was sitting and lower his head to listen and talk to him. Rudmose-Brown's character was wild and his talking was laced with curses which habitually would turn into an altogether obscene language as he drank more and the night's hours passed more. Rudmose-Brown, was, when all is said, a dear who, despite all efforts to do otherwise, aroused everybody's admiration and applause. He hated all ideologies, religions, political parties and any kind of leadership. Furry, Mrs Rudmose-Brown, was no less wild than her husband
Thomas Rudmose-Brown was professor of French at TCD whose method of teaching Racine's PHEDRE influenced Becektt both in form and in content. Rudmose-Brown had a fiery spirit, and he was alluded to by his students, including Beckett, as 'character' which locally meant 'eccentric'. Rudmose-Brown threw hilarious parties in his home and he was the only person who could elicit any conversation from Beckett whose habit in parties was to stand alone leaning against the wall in a corner, lowering his head and talking to no one. In Rudmose-Brown's parties, Beckett would sit on the arm of the sofa where Rudmose-Brown was sitting and lower his head to listen and talk to him. Rudmose-Brown's character was wild and his talking was laced with curses which habitually would turn into an altogether obscene language as he drank more and the night's hours passed more. Rudmose-Brown, was, when all is said, a dear who, despite all efforts to do otherwise, aroused everybody's admiration and applause. He hated all ideologies, religions, political parties and any kind of leadership. Furry, Mrs Rudmose-Brown, was no less wild than her husband

Arthur Aston Luce, DD, Beckett's tutor atTCD, was a philosopher and an authority on the writings of Descartes, Bergson and Berkeley the Irish philosopher who gave his name to Berkeley city in California. Luce was not Beckett's teacher but acted more as an overseer equivalent to counsellor (murshid) in Iraqi universities. Luce says that Beckett was a simple untalkative schoolboy who did not engage in small talk, did not spread himself thin with friends, had very little contact with women and whose greatest delight was cricket. Indeed, till the last hour of his life, Beckett relished two things: whisky and watching cricket matches on television. While at TCD, Luce wanted Beckett to become a teacher, mom May wanted him to be a lawyer and dad Bill wanted him an accountant at the Guinness brewery