Gordon Snell was a ‘force for good’ and ‘endlessly generous’, funeral hears
Author, who was married to Maeve Binchy, had ‘an enormous capacity for friendship’
Maeve Binchy
Funeral service for Gordon Snell will take place next week
Snell (93) died peacefully at home on Wednesday
Gordon Snell, children’s author and husband of Maeve Binchy, dies aged 93
Gordon Snell also wrote scripts for RTÉ, including the popular children’s show Wanderly Wagon
A Hosting: Interviews with Irish Writers 1991-2026 – A good listener’s illuminating, engaging conversations
The 60 authors in this ‘career retrospective’ include Claire Keegan, Anne Enright, Maeve Binchy and Sebastian Barry
Róisín Ingle: The woman has tears in her eyes. We embrace, strangers on a train
Making connections on a trip home from the North while pondering human foibles and frailties
No reservation: John Mulqueen on a Dublin restaurant that set the standard for fine dining
It was once dubbed one of Europe’s best by Vogue magazine
Is silence golden? When writers choose to stop
Novelist Julian Barnes’s retirement highlights how rare it is for a writer to choose to fall silent
Sinn Féin may reject commemorating the Normans, but there are some suspiciously Saxon names in its ranks
Take a look at centuries of Irish revolutionaries and you’ll find links to Norman history
Slice of literary history at Dún Laoghaire townhouse overlooking Scotsman’s Bay for €1.25m
Georgian terraced home was home to the playwright Shay Linehan, who adapted Maeve Binchy’s works for the stage
Sarah Maria Griffin: ‘I will be trying to figure out what the internet means to me for the rest of my life’
The author on her new novel, Eat the Ones You Love; the importance of libraries; and her love of video games
Elaine Feeney on her new novel: ‘I was pushing a sort of Chekhov dinner party in the west of Ireland’
The author of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way on her ‘first Irish family saga’, why she left teaching, and the politics of the domestic space
Róisín Ingle: I did a good bit of ‘maevesdropping’ in the shop. It’s what Binchy would have wanted
Impromptu trip to a charity shop yielded a copy of classic Maeve Binchy collection
Author Patricia Scanlan: ‘I’m working on an unanticipated project of healing from breast cancer’
The author on new novel City Girls Forever, a key difference between men and women and dealing with a cancer diagnosis
From Anne Enright to Dr Seuss: eight of the best books to read at Christmas
These books will leave both adults and children feeling a little bit more festive
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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