“I cannot imagine anyone with as open and tactful an intelligence as Sue Leonard.”
— Man Booker Prize Winner and Ireland’s inaugural Laureate for Irish fiction, Anne Enright, at the launch of An Act of Love.
Ally Bunbury’s earliest memory is of driving round the drawing room on a little cart, smoking a candy cigarette. “I was pretending to be Alexis Carrington,” she says, talking of Joan Collins’s character in the…
Alex was brought up on a diet of fairy tales. “From the minute I was born, Mum read to me. I learned the books by heart.” As a child she rewrote tales by Enid Blyton…
I was so saddened to hear of Máire’s death at the weekend. Back in 2003, I was lucky enough to interview her about her memoir, The Same Age as the State. I spent a glorious afternoon…