No. For aunts.
This morning.
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin 2
Cast members of Maeve Binchy’s ‘Light A Penny Candle’ – including top from left: Clelia Murphy, India Mullen and Kate Gilmore – looking at the play’s model box, designed by Maree Kearns, as they gather for the first day of rehearsals.
Adapted for the stage by Shay Linehan, this world premiere production will run at the Gaiety from April 23 – May 4 before a nationwide tour.
Light A penny Candle (Gaiety Theatre)
Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
You may want to sit down for this.
From a Catholic perspective, it was most gratifying to observe that Maeve Binchy died with the great satisfaction of a Catholic requiem mass.
Maeve frequently and enthusiastically, not least in her interviews with Gay Byrne, declared her lack of interest in religion, and Catholicism in particular.
Indeed, perhaps the best known practitioner of a ‘double life’ was the anti-Catholic philosopher, Voltaire.
While excoriating the Catholic Church in public, in private Voltaire sought the comfort of his pastor, and of the Catholic sacraments, with gusto.
The good news is that a death-bed conversion is as good as any. So welcome home Maeve, and may you rest in peace.
Eric Conway
Navan
Co Meath
Maeve Binchy Is ‘Home’ (Irish Examiner Letters)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTcq3i0uWI
“Irish people know exactly what to say when they want to say goodbye: ‘Well I won’t keep you any longer’. When they want to go THEMSELVES. And I love that.”
Earlier: Light A Penny Candle
“I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I’m not insane – I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.”
Maeve Binchy, who, RTE is reporting, has died following a short illness [photographed in her south Dublin cottage with husband Gordon Snell]
Pic courtesy of The Bookshelf
Meanwhile:
@broadsheet_ie Maeve Binchy word cloud tribute 1940-2012 RIP twitter.com/Alangb/status/…— Alangb (@Alangb) July 30, 2012
