Irish Examiner view: Waiting for Godot falls foul of prevailing nostrums

David Rawle performing the role of Lucky in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Picture: Mark Stedman

Those of a sceptical, or world-weary, mien may draw amusement or solace from two encounters between two of Ireland’s greatest writers and the anxieties and preoccupations of today’s young, sometimes easily offended, students.

At the University of Glasgow lecturers have provided classes studying James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses with trigger warnings for its “explicit” references to “sexual matters” and the possibly upsetting “language and attitudes” purveyed by the author.