Bestselling Irish author Maeve Binchy, one of Ireland's most popular writers, has died in Dublin after a brief illness. She was 72 years old.
Roddy Doyle's Facebook tribute beats anything I could say:
-See Maeve Binchy died.
-Sad tha’.
-It is, isn’t it? D’yeh ever read any of her bukes?
-No.
-Me neither.
-I read the covers. In the bed like. Whenever she had her hands on a new Maeve Binchy buke, yeh knew it was goin’ to be a quiet fuckin’ night.
-Same in our place.
-Still but. No hard feelin’s.
-No.
-I liked her on the radio.
-Yeah. I was thinkin’ tha’ meself earlier, when the News was on, like. I was lookin’ ou’ the kitchen window. An’ Young Damien was ou’ there, sittin’ in the deck chair, yeh know - takin’ notes. Watchin’ the polar bear peelin’ the skin off o’ Larry Hennessey’s new English bulldog. An’ I said to meself, Maeve would’ve seen the funny side o’ tha’.
-I know wha’ yeh mean.
-Wha’ for us would be just a normal everyday domestic scene. She would’ve made it look funny.
-Exactly.
-Sad tha’.
-It is, isn’t it? D’yeh ever read any of her bukes?
-No.
-Me neither.
-I read the covers. In the bed like. Whenever she had her hands on a new Maeve Binchy buke, yeh knew it was goin’ to be a quiet fuckin’ night.
-Same in our place.
-Still but. No hard feelin’s.
-No.
-I liked her on the radio.
-Yeah. I was thinkin’ tha’ meself earlier, when the News was on, like. I was lookin’ ou’ the kitchen window. An’ Young Damien was ou’ there, sittin’ in the deck chair, yeh know - takin’ notes. Watchin’ the polar bear peelin’ the skin off o’ Larry Hennessey’s new English bulldog. An’ I said to meself, Maeve would’ve seen the funny side o’ tha’.
-I know wha’ yeh mean.
-Wha’ for us would be just a normal everyday domestic scene. She would’ve made it look funny.
-Exactly.
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