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Maeve Binchy

October 14, 2023

Anne Maeve Binchy Snell (28 May 1939[1] – 30 July 2012) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker. Her novels were characterised by a sympathetic and often humorous portrayal of small-town life in Ireland, and surprise endings.[2][3] Her novels, which were translated into 37 languages, sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Her death at age 73, announced by Vincent Browne on Irish television late on 30 July 2012, was mourned as the death of one of Ireland's best-loved and most recognisable writers.[4][5][6][7]

Maeve Binchy
Binchy in 2006
BornAnne Maeve Binchy
(1939-05-28)28 May 1939
Dublin, Ireland
Died30 July 2012(2012-07-30) (aged 73)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity College Dublin
Period1978–2012
Genre
Literary movementPost-war Irish fiction
Notable works
Notable awards
Spouse
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(m. 1977)​
Relatives

She appeared in the US market, featuring on The New York Times best-seller list and in Oprah's Book Club.[8] Recognised for her "total absence of malice"[9] and generosity to other writers, she finished third in a 2000 poll for World Book Day, ahead of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Stephen King.[4][10]

Biography Edit

Overview Edit

Early life and family Edit

Anne Maeve Binchy[1] was born on 28 May 1939[1] in Dalkey, Dublin, the oldest of the four children of William and Maureen (née Blackmore) Binchy. Her siblings include one brother, William Binchy, Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, and two sisters: Irene "Renie" (who predeceased Binchy), and Joan, Mrs Ryan.[11] Her uncle was the historian D. A. Binchy (1899–1989). Educated at St Anne's (then located at No 35 Clarinda Park East), Dún Laoghaire, and later at Holy Child Killiney,[12] she went on to study at University College Dublin (where she earned a bachelor's degree in history),[2][3][13] she worked as a teacher[2][14] of French, Latin, and history at various girls' schools,[12][13][15] then a journalist at The Irish Times,[2] and later became a writer of novels, short stories, and dramatic works.[16][17][18]

In 1968, her mother died of cancer aged 57. After Binchy's father died in 1971, she sold the family house and moved to a bedsit in Dublin.[19]

Israel/Faith Edit

Her parents were Catholics and Binchy attended a convent school. However, a trip to Israel profoundly affected both her career and her faith. She later said to Vulture:

In 1963, I worked in a Jewish school in Dublin, teaching French with an Irish accent to kids, primarily Lithuanians. The parents there gave me a trip to Israel as a present. I had no money, so I went and worked in a kibbutz – plucking chickens, picking oranges. My parents were very nervous; here I was going out to the Middle East by myself. I wrote to them regularly, telling them about the kibbutz. My father and mother sent my letters to a newspaper, which published them. So I thought, It's not so hard to be a writer. Just write a letter home. After that, I started writing other travel articles.[16][20]

One Sunday, attempting to locate where the Last Supper is supposed to have occurred, she climbed a mountainside to a cavern guarded by a Brooklyn-born Israeli soldier. She wept with despair. The soldier asked, "What'ya expect, ma'am – a Renaissance table set for 13?" She replied, "Yes! That's just what I did expect." This experience caused her to renounce her Catholic faith, and eventually become agnostic.[21]

Marriage Edit

Binchy, described as "six feet tall, rather stout, and garrulous",[15] although she actually grew to 6'1",[1] said in an interview with Gay Byrne of The Late Late Show that, growing up in Dalkey, she never felt herself to be attractive; "as a plump girl I didn't start on an even footing to everyone else".[22] After her mother's death, she expected to lead a life of spinsterhood, saying "I expected I would live at home, as I always did." She continued, "I felt very lonely, the others all had a love waiting for them and I didn't."[22]

However, when recording a piece for Woman's Hour in London she met children's author Gordon Snell, then a freelance producer with the BBC.[22] Their friendship blossomed into a cross-border romance, with her in Ireland and him in London, until she eventually secured a job in London through The Irish Times.[22] She and Snell married in 1977 and, after living in London for a time, moved to Ireland. They lived together in Dalkey, not far from where she had grown up, until Binchy's death.[23] She said of him that he was a "writer, a man I loved and he loved me and we got married and it was great and is still great. He believed I could do anything, just as my parents had believed all those years ago, and I started to write fiction and that took off fine. And he loved Ireland, and the fax was invented so we writers could live anywhere we liked, instead of living in London near publishers.[5]

Letter to the president Edit

Files in Ireland's National Archives, released to the public in 2006, feature a request from Maeve Binchy to President Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh asking if he could "receive" her. She wrote, "I know you are extremely busy but I often see in the paper that you 'received' so-and-so and was wondering very simply could I be received too." This request came while she was working for The Irish Times in London in 1975.[24]

Health Edit

In 2002, Binchy suffered health problems related to a heart condition, which inspired her to write Heart and Soul. The book, about what Binchy terms "a heart failure clinic" in Dublin and the people involved with it, reflects many of her own experiences and observations in the hospital.[16][20][25] Towards the end of her life, Binchy's website stated "My health isn't so good these days and I can't travel around to meet people the way I used to. But I'm always delighted to hear from readers, even if it takes me a while to reply."[4]

Death Edit

Binchy died on 30 July 2012. She was 73 and had suffered from various maladies, including painful osteoarthritis.[26] As a result of the arthritis she had a hip operation.[27] A month before her death she suffered a severe spinal infection (acute discitis),[1] and finally succumbed to a heart attack.[4][6] Gordon was by her side when she died in a Dublin hospital.[5] Just ahead of that evening's Tonight with Vincent Browne and TV3's late evening news, Vincent Browne and then Alan Cantwell, who respectively anchor these shows, announced to Irish television viewers that Binchy had died earlier that evening.[7]

Immediate media reports described Binchy as "beloved", "Ireland's most well-known novelist" and the "best-loved writer of her generation".[5][7] Fellow writers mourned their loss, including Ian Rankin,[28] Jilly Cooper,[29] Anne Rice,[30] and Jeffrey Archer.[31] Politicians also paid tribute. President Michael D. Higgins stated: "Our country mourns."[30] Taoiseach Enda Kenny said, "Today we have lost a national treasure."[32] Minister of State at the Department of Health Kathleen Lynch, appearing as a guest on Tonight with Vincent Browne, said Binchy was, for her [Lynch's] money, as worthy an Irish writer as James Joyce or Oscar Wilde, and praised her for selling so many more books than they managed.[33]

In the days after her death tributes were published from such writers as John Banville,[34] Roddy Doyle,[35] and Colm Tóibín.[36] Banville contrasted Binchy with Gore Vidal, who died the day after her, observing that Vidal "used to say that it was not enough for him to succeed, but others must fail. Maeve wanted everyone to be a success." Numerous tributes appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Guardian and CBC News.[37][38][39][40]

Shortly before her death, Binchy told The Irish Times: "I don't have any regrets about any roads I didn't take. Everything went well, and I think that's been a help because I can look back, and I do get great pleasure out of looking back ... I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around."[5] Just before dying, she read her latest short story at the Dalkey Book Festival.[28] She once said she would like to die "... on my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain".[41]

Despite being agnostic, Binchy was given a traditional Requiem Mass which took place at the Church of the Assumption, in her hometown of Dalkey. She was later cremated at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium.[42][43]

Work Edit

Journalism Edit

The New York Times reports: Binchy's "writing career began by accident in the early 1960s, after she spent time on a kibbutz in Israel. Her father was so taken with her letters home that "he cut off the ‘Dear Daddy’ bits,” Ms. Binchy later recounted, and sent them to an Irish newspaper, which published them."[13] Donal Lynch observed of her first paying journalism role: the Irish Independent "was impressed enough to commission her, paying her £16, which was then a week-and-a-half's salary for her."[22]

In 1968, Binchy joined the staff at The Irish Times, and worked there as a writer, columnist, the first Women's Page editor[22] then the London editor,[44] later reporting for the paper from London before returning to Ireland.[13]

Binchy's first published book is a compilation of her newspaper articles titled My First Book. Published in 1970, it is now out of print. As Binchy's bio posted at Read Ireland describes: "The Dublin section of the book contains insightful case histories that prefigure her novelist's interest in character. The rest of the book is mainly humorous, and particularly droll is her account of a skiing holiday, 'I Was a Winter Sport.'"[45][46]

Literature Edit

In all, Binchy published 16 novels, four short-story collections, a play and a novella.[47] A 17th novel, A Week in Winter, was published posthumously.[48] Her literary career began with two books of short stories: Central Line (1978) and Victoria Line (1980). She published her debut novel Light a Penny Candle in 1982. In 1983, it sold for the largest sum ever paid for a first novel: £52,000. The timing was fortuitous, as Binchy and her husband were two months behind with the mortgage at the time.[49] However, the prolific Binchy – who joked that she could write as fast as she could talk – ultimately became one of Ireland's richest women.[49][50]

Her first book was rejected five times. She would later describe these rejections as "a slap in the face [...] It's like if you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either".[4]

Most of Binchy's stories are set in Ireland, dealing with the tensions between urban and rural life, the contrasts between England and Ireland, and the dramatic changes in Ireland between World War II and the present day. Her books have been translated into 37 languages.[4]

While some of Binchy's novels are complete stories (Circle of Friends, Light a Penny Candle), many others revolve around a cast of interrelated characters (The Copper Beech, Silver Wedding, The Lilac Bus, Evening Class, and Heart and Soul). Her later novels, Evening Class, Scarlet Feather, Quentins, and Tara Road, feature a cast of recurring characters.

Binchy announced in 2000 that she would not tour any more of her novels, but would instead be devoting her time to other activities and to her husband, Gordon Snell. Five further novels were published before her death: Quentins (2002), Nights of Rain and Stars (2004), Whitethorn Woods (2006), Heart and Soul (2008), and Minding Frankie (2010).[23] Her final novel, A Week in Winter, was published posthumously in 2012.[13][51] In 2014 a collection of 36 unpublished short stories that she had written over a period of decades was published under the title Chestnut Street.[52][53]

Binchy wrote several dramas specifically for radio and the silver screen. Additionally, several of her novels and short stories were adapted for radio, film, and television.[16][17][18] (See List of Works: Films, radio and television.)

Public appearances Edit

Binchy appeared on The Late Late Show on Saturday 20 March (based on chronology this would have been 1982) in connection with the publication of the Dublin 4 short story collection.[54] "Then the conversation broadened and Gay Byrne asked about some aspects of my work, the royal weddings", Binchy later recalled in a letter she sent to the programme.[54] "I said how much I had liked Charles's wedding and hated Anne's - about covering the election in Ireland and how I had been one of the very few journalists watching FitzGerald and Haughey on the night of the Great Debate..."[54]

Following the publication of Light a Penny Candle, the programme sought Binchy to reappear to explain her success.[54] In advance of her appearance she sent Mary O'Sullivan, who was working on the programme, a letter (the same one referred to above) setting out her earnings in some detail, since Binchy thought this would be of relevance.[54] She received an initial 5,000 Irish pounds for Light a Penny Candle.[54] The paperback rights were sold for a British record for a first novel with a prepublication advance of £52,000 from Coronet.[54] Viking Press paid Binchy $200,000 for the U.S. hardcover edition.[54] The Literary Guild of America paid a further $50,000.[54] The French publisher paid Binchy 50,000 francs.[54] Binchy wrote to O'Sullivan, "I thought it would be better if you knew the exact figures, then you could decide what was and what was not relevant".[54] O'Sullivan republished the letter in the Sunday Independent's Living supplement in 2020 but mentioned that the last page, which followed on from Binchy referring to what she intended to do with all her money, was missing.[54]

In 1994, Binchy appeared on Morningside with Peter Gzowski.[55]

In 1999, Binchy appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show.[56] In 2009, she appeared on The Meaning of Life, also presented by Gay Byrne.[57] Binchy and her husband had a cameo appearance together in Fair City on 14 December 2011, during which the couple dined in The Hungry Pig.[58]

Awards and honours Edit

In 1978, Binchy won a Jacob's Award for her RTÉ play, Deeply Regretted By. A 1993 photograph of her by Richard Whitehead[59] belongs to the collection of the National Portrait Gallery[60] and a painting of her by Maeve McCarthy,[61] commissioned in 2005, is on display in the National Gallery of Ireland.[62]

In 1999, she received the British Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, she received a People of the Year Award. In 2001, Scarlet Feather won the W H Smith Book Award for Fiction, defeating works by Joanna Trollope and then Booker winner Margaret Atwood, amongst other contenders.[10]

In 2007, she received the Irish PEN Award, joining writers including John B. Keane, Brian Friel, Edna O'Brien, William Trevor, John McGahern and Seamus Heaney.[63][64]

In 2010, she received a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Book Awards.[4] In 2012, she received an Irish Book Award in the "Irish Popular Fiction Book" category for A Week in Winter.[65]

Posthumous Edit

There were posthumous proposals to name a new Liffey crossing "Binchy Bridge" in memory of the writer.[66] Ultimately the bridge was named for trade unionist Rosie Hackett.

In September 2012, a new garden behind the Dalkey Library in County Dublin was dedicated in memory of Binchy.[67][68]

In 2014, University College Dublin announced the first annual Maeve Binchy Travel Award. The €4000 award will help student winners "pursue a novel travel trip to enhance their writing skills".[69]

List of works Edit

Publications Edit

Binchy published novels, non-fiction, a play and several short story collections. Two collections of short stories, Chestnut Street (2014) and A Few of the Girls (2015), were released after her death.[70]

Novels[23]
Short story collections[23]
  • Central Line (1978)
  • Victoria Line (1980)
  • Dublin 4 (1981)
  • London Transports (1983) (London Transports and Victoria Line Central Line consist of the same stories).
  • The Lilac Bus (1984)
  • Story Teller: Collection of Short Stories (1990)
  • Dublin People (1993)
  • Cross Lines (1996)
  • This Year It Will Be Different: And Other Stories (1996)
  • The Return Journey (1998)
  • Chestnut Street (2014)
  • A Few of the Girls (2015)
Novellas
  • The Builders (2002)[23]
  • Star Sullivan (2006)[23]
  • Full House (2012)[71]
Non-fiction
  • My First Book (1970). Dublin: The Irish Times, Ltd. (ISBN 9780950341835)
  • Aches and Pains (1999)[23]
  • A Time to Dance (2006)[23]
  • The Maeve Binchy Writer's Club (2008)[23]
  • Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words (2015)
Plays
Other works
  • Finbar's Hotel (contributor)
  • Ladies Night at Finbar's Hotel (contributor)
  • Irish Girls About Town (2002) (editor with Cathy Kelly and Marian Keyes)

Films, radio, and television Edit

Binchy wrote several dramas specifically for radio and the silver screen. Additionally, several of her novels and short stories were adapted for radio, film, and television.[16][17][18]

Films Edit

In addition, the plot of the Danish film Italian for Beginners (2000) was taken in part from Binchy's novel Evening Class without credit or payment to her; the production company later settled with Binchy for a payment of an undisclosed amount.

Radio Edit

Since 1968, Binchy was a "frequent and hugely popular contributor to RTÉ Radio".[17] A press released dated 31 July 2012 and posted in that organisation's online Press Centre reads:

"RTÉ Radio 1 provided the platform for Maeve's many forays into the world of drama. In 2005 RTÉ 2fm DJ Gerry Ryan was among the cast of Surprise, a four-part radio drama written by Maeve. Other radio drama work included the award-winning Infancy and Tia Maria, starring Oscar winner Kathy Bates. Maeve was a driving force behind the RTÉ Radio 1 Human Rights Drama Seasons, while her story The Games Room was adapted for RTÉ Radio 1 by Anne-Marie Casey in 2009."[17]

Television Edit

See also Edit

References Edit

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In season 3 episode 7 of Ballykissangel, one road worker tosses a book to another, saying, "The latest Maeve Binchy!"

Further reading Edit

  • Brady, Conor (1 August 2012). . The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  • Siciliano, Jana. "Biography: Maeve Binchy". BookReporter. Retrieved 25 February 2015. Interview with Jana Siciliano.
  • . The Irish Times. 22 August 2012. Archived from the original on 22 August 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2015.

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October 14, 2023
maeve, binchy, anne, snell, 1939, july, 2012, irish, novelist, playwright, short, story, writer, columnist, speaker, novels, were, characterised, sympathetic, often, humorous, portrayal, small, town, life, ireland, surprise, endings, novels, which, were, trans. Anne Maeve Binchy Snell 28 May 1939 1 30 July 2012 was an Irish novelist playwright short story writer columnist and speaker Her novels were characterised by a sympathetic and often humorous portrayal of small town life in Ireland and surprise endings 2 3 Her novels which were translated into 37 languages sold more than 40 million copies worldwide Her death at age 73 announced by Vincent Browne on Irish television late on 30 July 2012 was mourned as the death of one of Ireland s best loved and most recognisable writers 4 5 6 7 Maeve BinchyBinchy in 2006BornAnne Maeve Binchy 1939 05 28 28 May 1939Dublin IrelandDied30 July 2012 2012 07 30 aged 73 Dublin IrelandOccupationWriterLanguageEnglishAlma materUniversity College DublinPeriod1978 2012GenreFictionplayshort storytravel writingLiterary movementPost war Irish fictionNotable worksDeeply Regretted By Circle of FriendsTara RoadScarlet FeatherNotable awardsJacob s Award 1978British Book Award for Lifetime Achievement 1999People of the Year Award 2000W H Smith Book Award for Fiction 2001Irish PEN AT Cross Award 2007Irish Book Award for Lifetime Achievement 2010SpouseGordon Snell m 1977 wbr RelativesWilliam Binchy brother D A Binchy uncle She appeared in the US market featuring on The New York Times best seller list and in Oprah s Book Club 8 Recognised for her total absence of malice 9 and generosity to other writers she finished third in a 2000 poll for World Book Day ahead of Jane Austen Charles Dickens and Stephen King 4 10 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Overview 1 1 1 Early life and family 1 1 2 Israel Faith 1 1 3 Marriage 1 1 4 Letter to the president 1 2 Health 1 3 Death 2 Work 2 1 Journalism 2 2 Literature 3 Public appearances 4 Awards and honours 4 1 Posthumous 5 List of works 5 1 Publications 5 2 Films radio and television 5 2 1 Films 5 2 2 Radio 5 2 3 Television 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksBiography EditOverview Edit Early life and family Edit Anne Maeve Binchy 1 was born on 28 May 1939 1 in Dalkey Dublin the oldest of the four children of William and Maureen nee Blackmore Binchy Her siblings include one brother William Binchy Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin and two sisters Irene Renie who predeceased Binchy and Joan Mrs Ryan 11 Her uncle was the historian D A Binchy 1899 1989 Educated at St Anne s then located at No 35 Clarinda Park East Dun Laoghaire and later at Holy Child Killiney 12 she went on to study at University College Dublin where she earned a bachelor s degree in history 2 3 13 she worked as a teacher 2 14 of French Latin and history at various girls schools 12 13 15 then a journalist at The Irish Times 2 and later became a writer of novels short stories and dramatic works 16 17 18 In 1968 her mother died of cancer aged 57 After Binchy s father died in 1971 she sold the family house and moved to a bedsit in Dublin 19 Israel Faith Edit Her parents were Catholics and Binchy attended a convent school However a trip to Israel profoundly affected both her career and her faith She later said to Vulture In 1963 I worked in a Jewish school in Dublin teaching French with an Irish accent to kids primarily Lithuanians The parents there gave me a trip to Israel as a present I had no money so I went and worked in a kibbutz plucking chickens picking oranges My parents were very nervous here I was going out to the Middle East by myself I wrote to them regularly telling them about the kibbutz My father and mother sent my letters to a newspaper which published them So I thought It s not so hard to be a writer Just write a letter home After that I started writing other travel articles 16 20 One Sunday attempting to locate where the Last Supper is supposed to have occurred she climbed a mountainside to a cavern guarded by a Brooklyn born Israeli soldier She wept with despair The soldier asked What ya expect ma am a Renaissance table set for 13 She replied Yes That s just what I did expect This experience caused her to renounce her Catholic faith and eventually become agnostic 21 Marriage Edit Binchy described as six feet tall rather stout and garrulous 15 although she actually grew to 6 1 1 said in an interview with Gay Byrne of The Late Late Show that growing up in Dalkey she never felt herself to be attractive as a plump girl I didn t start on an even footing to everyone else 22 After her mother s death she expected to lead a life of spinsterhood saying I expected I would live at home as I always did She continued I felt very lonely the others all had a love waiting for them and I didn t 22 However when recording a piece for Woman s Hour in London she met children s author Gordon Snell then a freelance producer with the BBC 22 Their friendship blossomed into a cross border romance with her in Ireland and him in London until she eventually secured a job in London through The Irish Times 22 She and Snell married in 1977 and after living in London for a time moved to Ireland They lived together in Dalkey not far from where she had grown up until Binchy s death 23 She said of him that he was a writer a man I loved and he loved me and we got married and it was great and is still great He believed I could do anything just as my parents had believed all those years ago and I started to write fiction and that took off fine And he loved Ireland and the fax was invented so we writers could live anywhere we liked instead of living in London near publishers 5 Letter to the president Edit Files in Ireland s National Archives released to the public in 2006 feature a request from Maeve Binchy to President Cearbhall o Dalaigh asking if he could receive her She wrote I know you are extremely busy but I often see in the paper that you received so and so and was wondering very simply could I be received too This request came while she was working for The Irish Times in London in 1975 24 Health Edit In 2002 Binchy suffered health problems related to a heart condition which inspired her to write Heart and Soul The book about what Binchy terms a heart failure clinic in Dublin and the people involved with it reflects many of her own experiences and observations in the hospital 16 20 25 Towards the end of her life Binchy s website stated My health isn t so good these days and I can t travel around to meet people the way I used to But I m always delighted to hear from readers even if it takes me a while to reply 4 Death Edit Binchy died on 30 July 2012 She was 73 and had suffered from various maladies including painful osteoarthritis 26 As a result of the arthritis she had a hip operation 27 A month before her death she suffered a severe spinal infection acute discitis 1 and finally succumbed to a heart attack 4 6 Gordon was by her side when she died in a Dublin hospital 5 Just ahead of that evening s Tonight with Vincent Browne and TV3 s late evening news Vincent Browne and then Alan Cantwell who respectively anchor these shows announced to Irish television viewers that Binchy had died earlier that evening 7 Immediate media reports described Binchy as beloved Ireland s most well known novelist and the best loved writer of her generation 5 7 Fellow writers mourned their loss including Ian Rankin 28 Jilly Cooper 29 Anne Rice 30 and Jeffrey Archer 31 Politicians also paid tribute President Michael D Higgins stated Our country mourns 30 Taoiseach Enda Kenny said Today we have lost a national treasure 32 Minister of State at the Department of Health Kathleen Lynch appearing as a guest on Tonight with Vincent Browne said Binchy was for her Lynch s money as worthy an Irish writer as James Joyce or Oscar Wilde and praised her for selling so many more books than they managed 33 In the days after her death tributes were published from such writers as John Banville 34 Roddy Doyle 35 and Colm Toibin 36 Banville contrasted Binchy with Gore Vidal who died the day after her observing that Vidal used to say that it was not enough for him to succeed but others must fail Maeve wanted everyone to be a success Numerous tributes appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic including The Guardian and CBC News 37 38 39 40 Shortly before her death Binchy told The Irish Times I don t have any regrets about any roads I didn t take Everything went well and I think that s been a help because I can look back and I do get great pleasure out of looking back I ve been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around 5 Just before dying she read her latest short story at the Dalkey Book Festival 28 She once said she would like to die on my 100th birthday piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain 41 Despite being agnostic Binchy was given a traditional Requiem Mass which took place at the Church of the Assumption in her hometown of Dalkey She was later cremated at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium 42 43 Work EditJournalism Edit The New York Times reports Binchy s writing career began by accident in the early 1960s after she spent time on a kibbutz in Israel Her father was so taken with her letters home that he cut off the Dear Daddy bits Ms Binchy later recounted and sent them to an Irish newspaper which published them 13 Donal Lynch observed of her first paying journalism role the Irish Independent was impressed enough to commission her paying her 16 which was then a week and a half s salary for her 22 In 1968 Binchy joined the staff at The Irish Times and worked there as a writer columnist the first Women s Page editor 22 then the London editor 44 later reporting for the paper from London before returning to Ireland 13 Binchy s first published book is a compilation of her newspaper articles titled My First Book Published in 1970 it is now out of print As Binchy s bio posted at Read Ireland describes The Dublin section of the book contains insightful case histories that prefigure her novelist s interest in character The rest of the book is mainly humorous and particularly droll is her account of a skiing holiday I Was a Winter Sport 45 46 Literature Edit In all Binchy published 16 novels four short story collections a play and a novella 47 A 17th novel A Week in Winter was published posthumously 48 Her literary career began with two books of short stories Central Line 1978 and Victoria Line 1980 She published her debut novel Light a Penny Candle in 1982 In 1983 it sold for the largest sum ever paid for a first novel 52 000 The timing was fortuitous as Binchy and her husband were two months behind with the mortgage at the time 49 However the prolific Binchy who joked that she could write as fast as she could talk ultimately became one of Ireland s richest women 49 50 Her first book was rejected five times She would later describe these rejections as a slap in the face It s like if you don t go to a dance you can never be rejected but you ll never get to dance either 4 Most of Binchy s stories are set in Ireland dealing with the tensions between urban and rural life the contrasts between England and Ireland and the dramatic changes in Ireland between World War II and the present day Her books have been translated into 37 languages 4 While some of Binchy s novels are complete stories Circle of Friends Light a Penny Candle many others revolve around a cast of interrelated characters The Copper Beech Silver Wedding The Lilac Bus Evening Class and Heart and Soul Her later novels Evening Class Scarlet Feather Quentins and Tara Road feature a cast of recurring characters Binchy announced in 2000 that she would not tour any more of her novels but would instead be devoting her time to other activities and to her husband Gordon Snell Five further novels were published before her death Quentins 2002 Nights of Rain and Stars 2004 Whitethorn Woods 2006 Heart and Soul 2008 and Minding Frankie 2010 23 Her final novel A Week in Winter was published posthumously in 2012 13 51 In 2014 a collection of 36 unpublished short stories that she had written over a period of decades was published under the title Chestnut Street 52 53 Binchy wrote several dramas specifically for radio and the silver screen Additionally several of her novels and short stories were adapted for radio film and television 16 17 18 See List of Works Films radio and television Public appearances EditBinchy appeared on The Late Late Show on Saturday 20 March based on chronology this would have been 1982 in connection with the publication of the Dublin 4 short story collection 54 Then the conversation broadened and Gay Byrne asked about some aspects of my work the royal weddings Binchy later recalled in a letter she sent to the programme 54 I said how much I had liked Charles s wedding and hated Anne s about covering the election in Ireland and how I had been one of the very few journalists watching FitzGerald and Haughey on the night of the Great Debate 54 Following the publication of Light a Penny Candle the programme sought Binchy to reappear to explain her success 54 In advance of her appearance she sent Mary O Sullivan who was working on the programme a letter the same one referred to above setting out her earnings in some detail since Binchy thought this would be of relevance 54 She received an initial 5 000 Irish pounds for Light a Penny Candle 54 The paperback rights were sold for a British record for a first novel with a prepublication advance of 52 000 from Coronet 54 Viking Press paid Binchy 200 000 for the U S hardcover edition 54 The Literary Guild of America paid a further 50 000 54 The French publisher paid Binchy 50 000 francs 54 Binchy wrote to O Sullivan I thought it would be better if you knew the exact figures then you could decide what was and what was not relevant 54 O Sullivan republished the letter in the Sunday Independent s Living supplement in 2020 but mentioned that the last page which followed on from Binchy referring to what she intended to do with all her money was missing 54 In 1994 Binchy appeared on Morningside with Peter Gzowski 55 In 1999 Binchy appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show 56 In 2009 she appeared on The Meaning of Life also presented by Gay Byrne 57 Binchy and her husband had a cameo appearance together in Fair City on 14 December 2011 during which the couple dined in The Hungry Pig 58 Awards and honours EditIn 1978 Binchy won a Jacob s Award for her RTE play Deeply Regretted By A 1993 photograph of her by Richard Whitehead 59 belongs to the collection of the National Portrait Gallery 60 and a painting of her by Maeve McCarthy 61 commissioned in 2005 is on display in the National Gallery of Ireland 62 In 1999 she received the British Book Award for Lifetime Achievement In 2000 she received a People of the Year Award In 2001 Scarlet Feather won the W H Smith Book Award for Fiction defeating works by Joanna Trollope and then Booker winner Margaret Atwood amongst other contenders 10 In 2007 she received the Irish PEN Award joining writers including John B Keane Brian Friel Edna O Brien William Trevor John McGahern and Seamus Heaney 63 64 In 2010 she received a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Book Awards 4 In 2012 she received an Irish Book Award in the Irish Popular Fiction Book category for A Week in Winter 65 Posthumous Edit There were posthumous proposals to name a new Liffey crossing Binchy Bridge in memory of the writer 66 Ultimately the bridge was named for trade unionist Rosie Hackett In September 2012 a new garden behind the Dalkey Library in County Dublin was dedicated in memory of Binchy 67 68 In 2014 University College Dublin announced the first annual Maeve Binchy Travel Award The 4000 award will help student winners pursue a novel travel trip to enhance their writing skills 69 List of works EditPublications Edit Binchy published novels non fiction a play and several short story collections Two collections of short stories Chestnut Street 2014 and A Few of the Girls 2015 were released after her death 70 Novels 23 Light a Penny Candle 1982 Echoes 1985 Firefly Summer 1987 Silver Wedding 1988 Circle of Friends 1990 The Copper Beech 1992 The Glass Lake 1994 Evening Class 1996 Tara Road 1998 Scarlet Feather 2000 Quentins 2002 Nights of Rain and Stars 2004 Whitethorn Woods 2006 Heart and Soul 2008 Minding Frankie 2010 A Week in Winter 2012 Short story collections 23 Central Line 1978 Victoria Line 1980 Dublin 4 1981 London Transports 1983 London Transports and Victoria Line Central Line consist of the same stories The Lilac Bus 1984 Story Teller Collection of Short Stories 1990 Dublin People 1993 Cross Lines 1996 This Year It Will Be Different And Other Stories 1996 The Return Journey 1998 Chestnut Street 2014 A Few of the Girls 2015 NovellasThe Builders 2002 23 Star Sullivan 2006 23 Full House 2012 71 Non fictionMy First Book 1970 Dublin The Irish Times Ltd ISBN 9780950341835 Aches and Pains 1999 23 A Time to Dance 2006 23 The Maeve Binchy Writer s Club 2008 23 Maeve s Times In Her Own Words 2015 PlaysDeeply Regretted By 2005 23 72 The Half Promised Land 1980 72 Other worksFinbar s Hotel contributor Ladies Night at Finbar s Hotel contributor Irish Girls About Town 2002 editor with Cathy Kelly and Marian Keyes Films radio and television Edit Binchy wrote several dramas specifically for radio and the silver screen Additionally several of her novels and short stories were adapted for radio film and television 16 17 18 Films Edit Circle of Friends 1995 film Hollywood film starring Chris O Donnell and Minnie Driver based on Binchy s fifth novel Circle of Friends 1990 with a radical change of ending 73 74 Tara Road 2005 Hollywood film starring Olivia Williams and Andie MacDowell and based on Binchy s sixth novel Tara Road 1998 which was adopted as an Oprah s Book Club selection in September 1999 49 How About You 2007 Irish film based on the short story How About You sometimes published as The Hard Core and starring Vanessa Redgrave Joss Ackland Brenda Fricker and Imelda Staunton from the short story collection titled This Year It Will Be Different And Other Stories 1996 16 20 In addition the plot of the Danish film Italian for Beginners 2000 was taken in part from Binchy s novel Evening Class without credit or payment to her the production company later settled with Binchy for a payment of an undisclosed amount Radio Edit Since 1968 Binchy was a frequent and hugely popular contributor to RTE Radio 17 A press released dated 31 July 2012 and posted in that organisation s online Press Centre reads RTE Radio 1 provided the platform for Maeve s many forays into the world of drama In 2005 RTE 2fm DJ Gerry Ryan was among the cast of Surprise a four part radio drama written by Maeve Other radio drama work included the award winning Infancy and Tia Maria starring Oscar winner Kathy Bates Maeve was a driving force behind the RTE Radio 1 Human Rights Drama Seasons while her story The Games Room was adapted for RTE Radio 1 by Anne Marie Casey in 2009 17 dd Television Edit Deeply Regretted By 1978 Binchy won a Jacob s Award for this RTE One television play which was filmed in Ireland and stars Donal Farmer and Joan O Hara 75 76 77 Echoes 1988 four part television miniseries on Channel 4 based on Binchy s second novel Echoes published in 1985 16 The Lilac Bus 1990 90 minute TV movie starring Stephanie Beacham Emmet Bergin and Brendan Conroy based on Binchy s collection of interrelated short stories titled The Lilac Bus first published in 1984 49 78 Maeve Binchy s Anner House 2007 90 minute TV movie filmed in Cape Town that aired on RTE Television The film stars Liam Cunningham Flora Montgomery and Conor Mullen and is based on a short story by Binchy The screenplay was written by Anne Marie Casey 75 79 See also EditList of Fair City charactersReferences Edit a b c d e Born 1939 as per biography Maeve Binchy by Piers Dudgeon Thomas Dunne Books 2013 ISBN 978 1 250 04714 4 hardcover pp 4 280 302 ISBN 978 1 4668 4750 7 ebook a b c d Maeve Binchy Guardian Unlimited Books 22 July 2008 Archived from the original on 3 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Maeve Binchy a journalist whose head was full of stories The Guardian Archived from the original on 5 October 2013 Retrieved 31 July 2012 a b Award relief for anxious Binchy BBC News 27 April 2001 Archived from the original on 4 August 2012 Retrieved 27 April 2001 McGarry Patsy 4 August 2012 Standing room only at author s simple but sad farewell with no eulogy or extras as requested The Irish Times Archived from the original on 5 August 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 a b Maeve Binchy Read Ireland Archived from the original on 17 February 2013 Retrieved 4 August 2012 a b c d e Fox Margalit 31 July 2012 Books Maeve Binchy Writer Who Evoked Ireland Dies at 72 The New York Times Archived from the original on 4 August 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 An interview with Jana Siciliano BookReporter com Archived from the original on 8 June 2011 Retrieved 14 April 2007 a b Schudel Matt 3 August 2012 Maeve Binchy acclaimed Irish novelist dies at 72 The author wrote solely about Ireland but found devotion worldwide Kansas City Star Archived from the original on 8 August 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 a b c d e f g Maeve Binchy Filmography Movies amp TV Dept The New York Times Archived from the original on 30 January 2013 Retrieved 4 August 2012 a b c d e RTE Saddened by the Death of Best Selling Writer Maeve Binchy About RTE RTE Press Centre 31 July 2012 Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 Retrieved 12 August 2015 a b c Anne Marie Casey Gate Theater Archived from the original on 9 January 2014 Retrieved 4 August 2012 Maeve Binchy The Daily Telegraph 31 July 2012 Archived from the original on 31 July 2012 Retrieved 31 July 2012 a b c Ebiri Bilge 14 November 2008 Maeve Binchy on The Hard Core and Her Uplifting Next Novel About Heart Failure Vulture Archived from the original on 19 February 2014 Retrieved 5 August 2012 Kenny Mary 1 August 2012 Maeve Binchy shunned the dark side Irish Independent Archived from the original on 3 August 2012 Retrieved 1 August 2012 a b c d e f Lynch Donal 5 August 2012 Donal Lynch Maeve stirred up love with a long spoon She was held in great affection but even in Ireland the compliments could be backhanded Irish Independent Archived from the original on 7 August 2012 Retrieved 5 August 2012 a b c d e f g h i j Official Website of Maeve Binchy Archived from the original on 19 August 2020 Retrieved 4 August 2012 Maeve Binchy sought meeting with President The Irish Times 30 December 2006 Archived from the original on 31 July 2012 Retrieved 30 December 2006 Barr Robert 30 July 2012 Maeve Binchy Dead Bestselling Irish Author Dies Huffington Post Archived from the original on 3 August 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 Author Maeve Binchy dies The Belfast Telegraph 31 July 2012 Archived from the original on 22 September 2021 Retrieved 31 July 2012 McHardy Anne 31 July 2012 Maeve Binchy obituary The Guardian Archived from the original on 26 February 2015 Retrieved 31 July 2012 Twenty years later I was writing about arthritis and Maeve was an obvious contact It was before her hip operation and her pain was often debilitating a b Urquhart Conal 31 July 2012 Maeve Binchy bestselling Irish writer dies The Guardian Archived from the original on 24 February 2014 Retrieved 31 July 2012 Maeve Binchy tribute from writer Jilly Cooper BBC 31 July 2012 Archived from the original on 1 August 2012 Retrieved 31 July 2012 a b Twitter pays tribute to Maeve Binchy Irish Independent 31 July 2012 Archived from the original on 3 August 2012 Retrieved 31 July 2012 Telford Lyndsey Stack Sarah 31 July 2012 Maeve Binchy Warm tributes paid to beloved Dalkey author on her death after illness Irish Independent Archived from the original on 1 August 2012 Retrieved 31 July 2012 McGarry Patsy 31 July 2012 Tributes paid to national treasure Maeve Binchy The Irish Times Archived from the original on 31 July 2012 Retrieved 31 July 2012 30 July 2012 episode Tonight with Vincent Browne TV3 Archived from the original on 28 July 2012 Banville John 1 August 2012 Her prose had an exuberance an effervescence that was visible in her very typing The Irish Times Archived from the original on 2 August 2012 Retrieved 1 August 2012 Doyle Roddy 1 August 2012 Whenever she had her hands on a new Maeve Binchy buke The Irish Times Archived from the original on 2 August 2012 Retrieved 1 August 2012 Toibin Colm 1 August 2012 She brought self deprecation to a fine art but there was always irony behind it The Irish Times Archived from the original on 2 August 2012 Retrieved 1 August 2012 Carroll Steven 1 August 2012 International tributes roll in for writer for whom life was all about laughter The Irish Times Archived from the original on 1 August 2012 Retrieved 1 August 2012 Flood Alison 31 July 2012 Maeve Binchy a big hearted guide to friendship love and loss The Guardian Archived from the original on 6 April 2015 Retrieved 31 July 2012 Hayes McCoy Felicity 31 July 2012 Maeve Binchy we ll miss you Millions of readers around the world will remember Maeve as a great writer but for me she was the best of teachers too The Guardian Archived from the original on 6 April 2015 Retrieved 31 July 2012 Noakes Susan 31 July 2012 Maeve Binchy An appreciation CBC News Archived from the original on 31 July 2012 Retrieved 31 July 2012 Greenstreet Rosanna 22 July 1995 The Questionnaire Maeve Binchy The Guardian Archived from the original on 26 February 2015 Retrieved 31 July 2012 Barr Robert Popular Irish author Maeve Binchy dies at 72 AP Simple send off for much loved Binchy The Irish Times 3 August 2012 Archived from the original on 3 August 2012 Retrieved 3 August 2012 Obituary Maeve Binchy witty observant and larger than life Belfast Telegraph 2 August 2012 Archived from the original on 4 August 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 Maeve Binchy Read Ireland Archived from the original on 17 February 2013 Retrieved 4 August 2012 Binchy Maeve 1970 My First Book Dublin The Irish Times Ltd ISBN 9780950341835 Popular Irish author Maeve Binchy dies at 72 New York Daily News Associated Press 31 July 2012 Archived from the original on 4 August 2012 Retrieved 18 October 2012 Cadden Mary 13 February 2013 Spend a comforting Week in Winter with Maeve Binchy USA Today Archived from the original on 16 July 2015 Retrieved 30 August 2015 a b c d Books Obituaries Maeve Binchy The Telegraph 31 July 2012 Archived from the original on 4 August 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 Times staff and wire reports 1 August 2012 Maeve Binchy dies author of popular Irish literature was 72 Maeve Binchy a former teacher and journalist didn t publish her first novel until the year she turned 42 She soon became a best selling author Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on 3 August 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 Times staff and wire reports 1 August 2012 Maeve Binchy dies author of popular Irish literature was 72 Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on 3 August 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 Dumas Bobbi 26 April 2014 For Binchy Fans One Last Trip Down Chestnut Street National Public Radio Archived from the original on 16 July 2014 Retrieved 1 September 2014 Carey Anna 29 April 2014 Maeve Binchy Chestnut Street paved with gems The Irish Times Archived from the original on 3 September 2014 Retrieved 1 September 2014 a b c d e f g h i j k l McLysaght Emer 12 July 2020 It paved the way for Normal People The enduring appeal of Maeve Binchy s Circle of Friends Sunday Independent Living p 3 Archived from the original on 8 August 2020 Retrieved 22 August 2020 Print edition with original title of Big Read The circle of life of Circle of Friends included Maeve s letter explaining how she earned her new found success which Binchy sent to Mary O Sullivan before an appearance on The Late Late Show on which O Sullivan was working From the archives Maeve Binchy in conversation with Peter Gzowski CBC News Archived from the original on 9 January 2014 Retrieved 15 October 2013 Mackay Don 31 July 2012 A larger than life recorder of human foibles and wonderment Author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72 The Mirror Archived from the original on 31 July 2012 Retrieved 31 July 2012 The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne RTE 15 May 2009 Archived from the original on 15 June 2009 Retrieved 2 June 2009 Maeve Binchy visits Fair City tonight Raidio Teilifis Eireann 14 December 2011 Archived from the original on 14 January 2012 Retrieved 14 December 2011 National Portrait Gallery Collections Maeve Binchy NPG org uk 1993 Archived from the original on 21 August 2012 Retrieved 5 February 2012 National Portrait Gallery Maeve Binchy Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine The Molesworth Gallery Artists Maeve McCarthy ARHA MolesworthGallery com Archived from the original on 24 October 2012 Retrieved 5 February 2012 National Gallery unveils portrait of Maeve Binchy National Gallery of Ireland October 2005 Archived from the original on 6 July 2009 Previous Winners of the Irish PEN AT Cross Award for Literature Irish Pen Archived from the original on 9 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October 2015 Books An early present from Maeve Irish Independent Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 Retrieved 22 October 2015 Full House Archived from the original on 13 April 2012 Retrieved 31 July 2012 a b Corr John 15 November 1980 In the wake of her play enjoying a few drinks and laughs The Philadelphia Inquirer p 9 A Stark Susan 30 April 1995 A family tradition storytelling Hollywood hasn t affected author Maeve Binchy She simply is expanding her circle of friends The Jackson Sun Jackson Tennessee p 4B Circle of Friends IMDB com Archived from the original on 27 July 2018 Retrieved 30 June 2018 a b Maeve Binchy s Anner House RTE One 2007 Archived from the original on 3 April 2015 Anner House TV 2007 IMDb 2007 Archived from the original on 30 August 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 Deeply Regretted by maevebinchy com Archived from the original on 30 December 2011 Retrieved 4 August 2012 The Lilac Bus TV 1990 imdb com Archived from the original on 5 October 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 Anner House imdb com 2007 Archived from the original on 30 August 2012 Retrieved 4 August 2012 In season 3 episode 7 of Ballykissangel one road worker tosses a book to another saying The latest Maeve Binchy Further reading EditBrady Conor 1 August 2012 Maeve Binchy Beyond the relaxed image she was utterly professional The Irish Times Archived from the original on 2 August 2012 Retrieved 5 August 2012 Siciliano Jana Biography Maeve Binchy BookReporter Retrieved 25 February 2015 Interview with Jana Siciliano When Beckett met Binchy The Irish Times 22 August 2012 Archived from the original on 22 August 2012 Retrieved 25 February 2015 External links Edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Maeve Binchy Official website Maeve Binchy at IMDb Maeve Binchy profile at The Irish Times Archived 14 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine accessed 25 February 2015 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Maeve Binchy amp oldid 1174909277, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, 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