Maeve Binchy

Paul Howard: Ten things I’ve learned writing Ross O’Carroll-Kelly

I have changed Ireland in one small way – causing the demise of the name Ross

An Irish playwright in New York: Lines remain unlearned, curtains unraised, seats unfilled

I’ll write to make the actors cry again – laugh, too. We’ll need a laugh after this

Painting Dublin: A visual history of Ireland’s capital city

Before now, emphasis was placed on rural landscape and western seaboard in Irish art. This book takes a very different approach

Forget social media. Nothing beats a real Christmas card

It’s a small gesture that can mean a lot. It can also contribute to your family history

The indomitable woman of Irish journalism – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Mary Maher

Pioneering journalist, trade unionist and feminist activist

How nuns schooled today’s torch-bearers of feminism

A generation of female superheroes in tartan skirts and gabardines

Olive: Olive branches for women in their 30s

Book review: Emma Gannon’s smart debut novel looks at the decision to be childfree

Anne Enright: ‘Nuala O’Faolain was an impossible person, to whom we owe so much’

Older feminists are not always delighted when the young enjoy freedoms they fought for

Marian Keyes: ‘What doesn’t kill us makes us funnier’

The writer on Irishness, feminism, mental health and happy endings

Irish priest working with Syrian refugees appeals for help

Fr William Stuart says situation is critical in Lebanon camp. ‘People are starving’

In a Word . . .

. . . novel. Patsy McGarry

How the Mity have Risen – Frank McNally on the (short) literary history of cheese mites

Jennifer O’Connell: My email is full of snippets of other people’s conversations

I collect snippets of strangers’ conversations like other people collect beer mats or vintage Pyrex dishes. It's not without its hazards

A year in health: 1970 marked by strikes, disputes and promised reforms

Many of the health stories 50 years ago are all too relevant today, with rows about hospital sites, private versus public healthcare and concerns about cervical smear tests

‘Send it to me next year’: The Christmas card sent between two friends since 1956

Eunice Baily and Clare Brazil met in school and have exchanged the same card since

Settled into an Irish cottage, Peig style

Artist Maria Simonds-Gooding settled in Dunquin in the 1960s in a Blasket islander’s cottage

How Maeve Binchy’s Irish Times column helped children in hospital

The writer’s deploring of ‘etiquette fiends’ started a letters page row that led to the setting-up of what is now Children in Hospital in Ireland

Last Post – Frank McNally on St Crispin’s Day, English patriotism, and shoe-making

First look inside the new Museum of Literature Ireland

MoLI in Newman House, Dublin opens this month featuring Joyce’s notebooks and more

Grand, eejit, feck: Marian Keyes explains the Irish to the English

The Irish writer’s new BBC Radio 4 show began with the theme of Ireland and the Irish

Ireland’s new motorway plazas: A long way from ‘f*** me, Kinnegad’

Big, bright service stations have changed long-distance driving, and who you meet

I’ve travelled the world but Ballybunion is my favourite place to holiday

I’ve spent every summer on the Kerry beach since 1973. Now I’m bringing my son back, to teach him how to swim

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