Eileen Brennan

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Brothers Mick and Ciaran Crean of MicksGarage.com were down on the warehouse floor packing orders during the lockdown. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
The ‘covidpreneurs’ of 2020: ‘You couldn’t mill the flour fast enough’

Meet the miller who worked all night, the car-parts sellers who started flogging frisbees, the gin makers who switched to hand sanitiser,(...)

Here's one I made earlier ... Emma Ferguson with three-week-old son Paddy and her winning loaf
Brown bread wins Meath woman €10,000 prize at Ploughing Championships

Emma Ferguson, a mother of three from Rathmolyon, Co Meath, is the winner of the National Brown Bread Baking Competition. Her loaf will go on sale in (...)

French president Emmanuel Macron. Photograph: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images
Paul Ricoeur: The philosopher behind Emmanuel Macron

Paul Ricoeur is one of those continental philosophers you have to read with a dictionary in one hand and a strong coffee in the other (“difficult to c(...)

Eileen Brennan as Capt Doreen Lewis in a scene from ‘Private Benjamin’. Photograph: AP Photo/Warner Brothers
Oscar-nominated actor and star of ‘Private Benjamin’
  • People
  • August 3, 2013, 01:00

Eileen Brennan, who has died aged 80, had been a stage actor since the late 1950s, but it was as a largely comic presence in US cinema of the 1970s an(...)