Hilary Fannin

Hilary Fannin

Hilary Fannin is a columnist and playwright. She wrote the TV review for The Irish Times for almost five years, passing on the baton when her eyes turned square. She now writes a weekly column, Fiftysomething, which loosely attempts to look at life from the other side of the hill. Her plays have been performed in Ireland, Europe and America, and she was writer in association at the Abbey Theatre in its centenary year. She has also written extensively for radio, both for the BBC and RTE.

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Shorts are no friend to middle-aged men on city streets
Shorts are not a man’s best friend

Fiftysomething: Ankle-socked toddler-man has all the sexual allure of a washing-machine manual

A lost city and one that’s never gone away

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Those precious gifts we take for granted

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At play with the masters on an island paradise

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My mother, Avon lady

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"The piano might have fetched a few quid. The red couch, with our lost pennies and confirmation medals and broken Matchbox cars down the back, and the armchairs with the funny squiggles on the upholstery, which looked, in our very ordinary front room, like funkily dressed people who had somehow got off at the wrong stop, can’t have been worth much."
When I was 10 the bailiffs came

'I could imagine the squiggly armchairs settling in nicely, whispering about their previously traumatic incarnations to all the er(...)

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