The result was a pair of badly singed eyebrows and a severe beating from his mother (Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett. On one occasion, he dropped a lighted match into a can of gasoline as he peered into it to see what would happen. While Frank, his older brother, was an obedient child, Sam was not, always doing daring things which earned him frequent beatings from his mother. However, the dislike that he felt for his disciplinarian mother was somewhat compensated for by the love that he felt for his easy-going father. He and his mother argued constantly from his early youth until her death. Sam was raised in Cooldrinagh, a three-story Tudor house located to the south of Dublin. He was of middle class stock, his father, William (Bill) Frank Beckett, Jr., being a contractor, and his mother, Mary (May) Roe, the daughter of a gentleman. Originally known as Becquet, his French Huguenot ancestors moved to Ireland in the seventeenth century for religious and economic reasons. Samuel Beckett claimed to have been born on Good Friday, April13, 1906.
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