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...colleague, Carl Bernstein, who only learned of the secret marriage with an hour to spare, provided boutonnieres niched from a hotel flowerpot. ∎ Died. Cornelius Ryan, 54, bestselling chronicler of World War II (The Longest Day, The Last Battle, A Bridge Too Far); of cancer; in Manhattan. Born in Dublin, Ryan studied the violin at the Irish Academy of Music before becoming a war correspondent in 1941. He covered the D-day invasion for the London Daily Telegraph; he reported postwar atomic tests in the Pacific and the Israeli 1948 war for TIME. A return to Normandy in 1949 rekindled...
Maeve Brennan is the kind of writer who can transform the arrival of a sofa in a lower-middle-class Dublin household or the cleaning of a carpet (one with big pink roses on it) into an extraordinary celebration of family love. She does this by a steady accumulation of detail and alternate flashes of passionate statement and raw insight. The accomplishment is formidable-something few writers attempt without sounding precious, dull, or both...
...gift is flawlessly demonstrated in the title story from Christmas Eve, Maeve Brennan's first book in five years. Tis the night before Christmas, in a cramped suburban house in Dublin. The husband, Martin, stands downstairs in the hall, listening to his wife Delia putting their two small girls to bed. Between husband and wife are the stairs and the dark length of the hall, containing a coatrack, an umbrella stand and a chair. "Nobody ever sat on the chair and nobody ever stood long in the hall," Brennan writes. "It was a passageway-not to fame...
Love that is largely unexpressed, and the fear of losing it, dominates the lives of most Brennan characters. All of them, whether they survive in shabby Dublin gentility, bask in fashionable East Hampton, or simply hang on by their fingernails in New York City, live in a world of secret thoughts and elaborate private rituals that they cannot share. Brennan has always specialized in the involuntary victims of such isolation-children and animals. She has even written successfully about a large Labrador retriever named Bluebell...
Maeve Brennan came from Dublin to America with her family in 1934, when she was 17. She has lived here ever since. She worked at first for Harper's Bazaar, but in the 1940s her work caught the eye of New Yorker Editor William Shawn, who encouraged her to do the Long-Winded Lady pieces and stories as well. Her seven-year marriage to Fellow New Yorker Writer St. Clair McKelway ended in divorce...