Maeve Binchy
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Painting Dublin: A visual history of Ireland’s capital city
- Visual Art
- January 9, 2021, 06:00
Before now, emphasis was placed on rural landscape and western seaboard in Irish art. KATHRYN MILIGAN'S book has taken a different approach Art (...)

Forget social media. Nothing beats a real Christmas card
- Visual Art
- December 21, 2020, 05:00
Is the practice of sending Christmas cards diminishing? My own, output and input, have dropped considerably in the past few years. Digital, text messa(...)

The indomitable woman of Irish journalism – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Mary Maher
- Opinion
- November 9, 2020, 00:01
One of the unfortunate side-effects of the pandemic is that some milestones have passed unnoticed but Mary Maher’s friends are determined that this wi(...)

How nuns schooled today’s torch-bearers of feminism
- Education
- October 20, 2020, 00:00
The convent school prefect is having a moment. From arts and media to politics and law, it’s the graduates of all-girls Catholic schools who are blazi(...)

Olive: Olive branches for women in their 30s
- Books
- July 24, 2020, 06:00
Taking a group of female friends and exploring their lives and relationships is a staple of contemporary women’s fiction, from Maeve Binchy’s Circle o(...)

Anne Enright: ‘Nuala O’Faolain was an impossible person, to whom we owe so much’
- Books
- July 12, 2020
“Why does no one ever ask me up to dance?” This was the question Nuala O’Faolain asked at an evening hooley at the Merriman School in Lisdoonvarna in (...)

Marian Keyes: ‘What doesn’t kill us makes us funnier’
- Books
- July 11, 2020, 06:00
Charlotte’s Web author EB White once said that a writer should concern herself “with whatever absorbs her fancy, stirs her heart and unlimbers her typ(...)

Irish priest working with Syrian refugees appeals for help
- Religion & Beliefs
- May 5, 2020, 00:26
A Dublin priest working with Syrian refugee children in Lebanon has urged people not to lose sight of the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the worl(...)

In a Word . . .
- Culture
- February 8, 2020, 00:30
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a bestseller novel. Yes, I know, it’s hard for a man to do that these days. I could use a woman’s name. Like(...)

How the Mity have Risen – Frank McNally on the (short) literary history of cheese mites
- Opinion
- February 7, 2020, 18:01
The late Maeve Binchy used to make an art form of eavesdropping in restaurants, at home and abroad. One day in 1978, she was having lunch in the Frenc(...)