Commemorative plaque for writer Maeve Brennan

Dublin City Council will unveil a commemorative plaque for the writer Maeve Brennan at her childhood home (48 Cherryfield Avenue) in Ranelagh on 6 January 2024 at 11am. 

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Sinéad Gleeson, a champion of Brennan's work, will speak at the ceremony, alongside the Lord Mayor.

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Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan, a collection of short stories about Dublin, published by Peninsula Press is available to reserve on our online catalogue. 

In the stories that compose this collection, Maeve Brennan writes about the daily lives of three Dublin families. Brennan turns her anatomist’s eye to the resentment, rivalry, and hatred that teem beneath the surface of family life – always doing so, however, with an attention to detail that makes these unsparing stories luminous and exquisite.

Brennan’s subjects are ordinary people worn down by life, its little humiliations; yet they are also dreamers, defiantly hopeful of one day stepping beyond the narrow confines of the situation in which, unaccountably, they have found themselves. These stories ache; pitting imagination against circumstance, they are at once claustrophobic and expansive.

With a new introduction by acclaimed novelist Claire-Louise Bennett, The Springs of Affection, reveals Maeve Brennan to be one of the most innovative and important writers of the 20th century.