Maeve Brennan
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Hubert & Rose live in Dublin; they have been married over thirty years. Their only child, John, has become a priest, much to Hubert's disgust. Hubert, …
Talk. The long-winded lady writes that she finds the world noisy & intrusive in the summertime; she is always too conscious of the rooms she is living in &…
George Briscoe was 47 & Jane Rooney, 40, when they married. A Londoner, he had come to Dublin for a part with an English Theatre Co. He met Jane, a music …
A government clerk, his wife and three small daughters lived in a small house in Dublin. The mother was a country girl who was unsure of herself. The only …
Maeve Brennan reports on an eventful first day back in New York City.
Miss Lister, about forty, waited for her father in the lobby of a hotel on lower 5th Ave. While she sat there, old Mr. Whitticombe, and his daughter came …