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1953
 
    
Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ('En attendant Godot') is first performed in French in Paris       
1954
 
    
Anglo-Irish novelist Iris Murdoch publishes her first novel, Under the Net       
1957
 
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De Valera takes stringent measures against the IRA and Sinn Fein, detaining activists in an internment camp        
1958
 
    
Irish writer Brendan Behan's autobiographical Borstal Boy is published       
1959
 
    
On the retirement of de Valera, Sean Lemass succeeds him as leader of Fianna F´il and prime minister of Ireland       
1960
 
    
Irish author Edna O'Brien publishes her first novel, The Country Girls       
1963
 
    
Terence O'Neill succeeds Basil Brooke (Lord Brookeborough) as Northern Ireland's prime minister       
1965
 
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Terence O'Neill and Séan Lemass, prime ministers of Northern Ireland and Ireland, have two unprecedented meetings       
1966
 
    
Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins critical acclaim for Death of a Naturalist, his first volume containing more than a few poems       
1967
 
    
Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman has a great success when published posthumously