Maeve Brennan Exhibtion is now open

📍 6 Ranelagh, Dublin 6, D06 X7W9

🗓️ Monday 6 – Sunday 12 October

Discover the remarkable life and writing of Maeve Brennan, one of Ireland’s most distinctive literary voices. This exhibition invites you to explore her world through:

• Original articles from The New Yorker

• Selections from her acclaimed books

• Photographs and visuals capturing Maeve and the New York she loved

Take a quiet moment to immerse yourself in her wit, elegance, and enduring influence.

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Other events happening this weekend

🎶 Jazz Performance: Emille Conway

Venue: Sandford Church, Ranelagh

Date & Time: Saturday 11 October, 8pm

Award-winning jazz singer Emille Conway presents a unique performance that interweaves Maeve Brennan’s prose with an eclectic musical journey through her life.

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🎬 Documentary Premiere: Maeve Brennan – The Long-Winded Lady

Venue: Ranelagh Arts, 6 Ranelagh

Dates: Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 October

A brand-new documentary exploring Brennan’s extraordinary life, her celebrated writing, and her lasting influence — inspired by local historian Sally Corcoran’s walking tours of Ranelagh.

🚶‍♀️ Maeve Brennan Walking Tour

Meeting Point: Ranelagh Arts, 6 Ranelagh

Date & Time: Sunday 12 October, 3pm

Join Sally Corcoran for a guided walk through the streets and landmarks that shaped Maeve Brennan’s imagination and writing — a journey through the Ranelagh of her youth.

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​About Maeve Brennan

Maeve Brennan (1917–1993) grew up at 48 Cherryfield Avenue, Ranelagh, before moving to Washington, D.C., with her family in 1933. After graduating in English from American University, she moved to New York, working first at Harper’s Bazaar before joining The New Yorker in 1949.

Brennan became celebrated for her incisive fiction and her “Long-Winded Lady” column in The Talk of the Town, capturing the rhythms of Manhattan life. Though admired in the U.S., she remained little known in Ireland during her lifetime. Her later years were marked by illness and poverty, and she died in New York in 1993.

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​A Weekend of Remembrance

This special programme invites audiences to rediscover Maeve Brennan: a pioneering Irish woman of letters whose wit, insight, and luminous prose continue to inspire.