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Anne Enright’s “Springs of Affection” for Maeve Brennan

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
June / July 2016

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Anne Enright delivered the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction lecture on writer Maeve Brennan at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House at New York University. Enright’s lecture served as the introduction to a new edition of Brennan’s Dublin stories, The Springs of Affection, published in June 2016. The historic New York City townhouse at 58 West Tenth Street is abuzz with … [Read more...] about Anne Enright’s “Springs of Affection” for Maeve Brennan

The Troubled Life of Maeve Brennan

By Elizabeth Toomey, Contributor
June / July 2005

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In her new biography of Maeve Brennan, Angela Bourke includes two photographs taken around 1948. In one, Brennan, a delicate-looking young woman dressed in black, is sitting in front of the fire looking over her shoulder, a cigarette in her left hand. With her hair fixed tightly in a bun and her lips pursed, she looks like a fashion model. In another photo from the same shoot, … [Read more...] about The Troubled Life of Maeve Brennan

The Troubled Life
of Maeve Brennan

By Elizabeth Toomey, Contributor
June / July 2005

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In her new biography of Maeve Brennan, Angela Bourke includes two photographs taken around 1948. In one, Brennan, a delicate-looking young woman dressed in black, is sitting in front of the fire looking over her shoulder, a cigarette in her left hand. With her hair fixed tightly in a bun and her lips pursed, she looks like a fashion model. In another photo from the same shoot, … [Read more...] about The Troubled Life
of Maeve Brennan