Phyllis Gaffney
Healing Amid the Ruins

Beckett and colleagues from the Saint-LA? hospital staff
Unloading the stores for the Irish hospital.
Samuel Beckett is on the left in the front row;

the author's father, Jim Gaffney, is third from the left.
The men sitting on the lorry are German prisoners of war.

Le camion des provisions pour l'hôpital irlandais.
Samuel Beckett se trouve sur la gauche, et le père de l'auteur,
Jim Gaffney, est la troisième personne à partir de la gauche.
Les hommes sur le camion derrière les Irlandais
sont des prisonniers de guerre allemands.

Photo: Irish Times

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