HAPPY DAYS is the world's first annual festival to celebrate the work and influence of Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett.

Antony Gormley has been commissioned to create 'Tree for Waiting for Godot'to be exhibited in The Grand Yard at Castle Coole until 13 September. Made from 37 sections of stainless steel, after the Festival the Tree will travel to Australia and be used in an Aboriginal Australian-Irish co-production of Beckett's most famous play.