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Michael Viney
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Michael Longley: ‘Most men don’t like intelligent women. I just hang on their every word’
The poet met his wife, Edna, as a student at Trinity College Dublin. She has been the constant in a life that Longley reflects on in his new selected poems
Ethna Viney obituary: Irish Times nature columnist, environmental and feminist
When Michael Viney’s second column An Eye on Nature answering readers queries began, Ethna ran it for years under his name until she was finally acknowledged as the author
Veteran Irish Times nature columnist Ethna Viney to be laid to rest in Mayo
For 33 years she wrote the weekly Eye on Nature column for The Irish Times which appeared alongside her husband’s Michael’s nature columns
Former Irish Times columnist Ethna Viney dies aged 95
Author was a feminist, economist and environmentalist who wrote the weekly Eye on Nature column for 33 years
Obituaries of 2023: 50 people who died this year
The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known
Michael Viney’s Natural World review: Late Irish Times writer’s book achieves the near impossible
Browser: Plus reviews of A Ramble About Tallaght: History, People, Places, by Albert Perris, and Twiggy Woman by Oein DeBhairduin
Michael Viney: Nature writer, illustrator and journalist’s last book launched in Letterfrack
Daughter Michele Viney says writer who worked to complete ‘Natural World’ right until the very end ‘died with his boots on’
Michael Viney used to say Atlantic storms had no menace in them. They do now
Worldview: Viney would have been interested in a new book by Kohei Saito, which explores Marx’s evolving ecological thinking
Michael Viney memorial service: ‘A determined spirit’ who ‘touched many hearts’
Writer, artist, broadcaster and Irish Times columnist’s life was celebrated with affection at Lakelands Crematorium in Cavan
Michael Viney: Three of his best columns from a 60-year career
The late journalist was best known for his Another Life column, describing life in Mayo and interactions with nature
Michael Viney: Why I moved to Mayo in 1977 and never came back
In this 2015 article, the late Irish TImes journalist looks back on his life on the road less travelled
Michael Viney: 20 of his finest drawings and paintings from a 60-year career
As well as being a master of words, the late journalist produced all his own illustrations, inspired by the Mayo landscape
Michael Viney was an Englishman who opened up Ireland for Irish people, writes Fintan O’Toole
Tribute: The late journalist, a sensitive observer of nature and weather, turned an equally sharp eye on Irish society
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