One of Ireland's most successful novelists, loved for her kindness and generosity of spirit
Maeve Binchy, who has died aged 72, was a larger-than-life author and journalist, whose novels about love and romance in Ireland sold more than 40m copies in 37 languages. Among the most popular were Light a Penny Candle (1982), Echoes (1985), Circle of Friends (1990) and Tara Road (1998). The last of these, the story of two women who exchange homes in Ireland and the Us for a magical summer, was promoted by Oprah Winfrey, ensuring runaway sales. In 1995 Circle of Friends, about childhood friends from the village of Knockglen, was made into a film starring Chris O'Donnell and Minnie Driver. Tara Road and the short story How About You? also became feature films, and The Lilac Bus (1984) and Echoes were made into television films.
Maeve's novels dealt with issues such as betrayal and child-parent relationships, tensions between rural and urban life,...
Maeve Binchy, who has died aged 72, was a larger-than-life author and journalist, whose novels about love and romance in Ireland sold more than 40m copies in 37 languages. Among the most popular were Light a Penny Candle (1982), Echoes (1985), Circle of Friends (1990) and Tara Road (1998). The last of these, the story of two women who exchange homes in Ireland and the Us for a magical summer, was promoted by Oprah Winfrey, ensuring runaway sales. In 1995 Circle of Friends, about childhood friends from the village of Knockglen, was made into a film starring Chris O'Donnell and Minnie Driver. Tara Road and the short story How About You? also became feature films, and The Lilac Bus (1984) and Echoes were made into television films.
Maeve's novels dealt with issues such as betrayal and child-parent relationships, tensions between rural and urban life,...
- 7/31/2012
- by Conor O'Clery
- The Guardian - Film News
Bestselling Irish author Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland’s most popular writers who sold more than 40 million books worldwide, has died in Dublin after a brief illness, Irish media and national leaders said. She was 72 years old.
She was best known for her depictions of human relationships and their crises, mainly in the small towns of Ireland but also in London. “We have lost a national treasure,” said Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
The Irish Times, her former employer, told the AP it had spoken to Binchy’s family and said the acclaimed author had died in a Dublin hospital...
She was best known for her depictions of human relationships and their crises, mainly in the small towns of Ireland but also in London. “We have lost a national treasure,” said Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
The Irish Times, her former employer, told the AP it had spoken to Binchy’s family and said the acclaimed author had died in a Dublin hospital...
- 7/31/2012
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
London (AP) — Bestselling Irish author Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland's most popular writers who sold more than 40 million books worldwide, has died in Dublin after a brief illness, Irish media and national leaders reported. She was 72 years old.
She was best known for her depictions of human relationships and their crises, mainly in the small towns of Ireland but also in London.
"We have lost a national treasure," said Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
The Irish Times, her former employer, told the AP it had spoken to Binchy's family and said the acclaimed author had died in a Dublin hospital on Monday with her husband Gordon Snell by her side.
"She was an outstanding novelist, short story writer and columnist, who engaged millions of people all around the world with her fluent and accessible style," said Ireland's president, Michael D. Higgins.
"In recent years she showed great courage and thankfully never lost her self-deprecating humor,...
She was best known for her depictions of human relationships and their crises, mainly in the small towns of Ireland but also in London.
"We have lost a national treasure," said Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny.
The Irish Times, her former employer, told the AP it had spoken to Binchy's family and said the acclaimed author had died in a Dublin hospital on Monday with her husband Gordon Snell by her side.
"She was an outstanding novelist, short story writer and columnist, who engaged millions of people all around the world with her fluent and accessible style," said Ireland's president, Michael D. Higgins.
"In recent years she showed great courage and thankfully never lost her self-deprecating humor,...
- 7/31/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Maeve Binchy has died at the age of 72. The novelist and playwright passed away peacefully in hospital on Monday (July 30) with her husband, the children's author Gordon Snell, by her side. Born in Dalkey on May 28, 1940, Binchy studied at University College Dublin and worked both as a teacher and a journalist before she became a best-selling writer. She spoke fondly of her early years on her own website, writing: "I was happy and confident. That was quite simply because I had a mother and a father at home who thought I was wonderful. They thought all their geese were swans. "It was a gift greater than beauty or riches, the feeling that you were as fine as anyone else." Binchy began writing fiction while working at the London (more)...
- 7/31/2012
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
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