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Maeve Binchy RIP

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  • #102
    Neeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    airdance wrote: »
    gah! Is there any way someone could post it to youtube or the like? my mum's been dying to see it ever since 2010 but we can't get RTE... :(

    Rte player.


  • #103
    airdance
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭airdance


    *gloom* i wish, but we're outside of ireland now and i can't seem to find a proxy. oh, well. hopefully it'll surface somewhere since the lady is no longer with us... thanks for trying to help tho!


  • #104
    monkeysnapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    Never read anything by her but watching rte about her, what a fab lady!!


  • #105
    Neeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    airdance wrote: »
    *gloom* i wish, but we're outside of ireland now and i can't seem to find a proxy. oh, well. hopefully it'll surface somewhere since the lady is no longer with us... thanks for trying to help tho!

    Does aertv work outside Ireland and you could watch it live now?


  • #106
    Jimminy Mc Fukhead
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 305 ✭✭Jimminy Mc Fukhead


    Deleted User wrote: »
    What am I going to buy the wife for her birthday if there are no more books coming out?

    Expensive jewelery.


  • #107
    poppyvally
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭poppyvally


    deandean wrote: »
    R.I.P. I wasn't expecting that.

    I'm gonna light a penny candle for her.

    They're 25c now. but in Maeve's time... 1 old penny. Lovely person!


  • #108
    airdance
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭airdance


    Neeson wrote: »
    Does aertv work outside Ireland and you could watch it live now?

    sure doesn't. :(


  • #109
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    I loved her books and had the chance to meet her in person when she was once signing books in the Blanch centre.
    I'd an ill relative at the time who also loved her books so I shot off, bought her latest, and asked her to reference the illness in her signing.

    She left a lovely lovely message which is cherished to this day.

    She was a lovely woman, very down to earth, and kind from that one interaction

    I will miss her, her books, and her warmth

    Best wishes to her family, they must be utterly devastated, 72 is a very very young age to die.


  • #110
    Neeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    derekeire wrote:
    What am I going to buy the wife for her birthday if there are no more books coming out?

    She had a book finished due out in October.


  • #111
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Aww this program is great.

    I never knew she couldn't have children :( I often wondered...


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  • #112
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    My heart goes out to her husband, Gordon. Maeve and Gordon always appeared to be an extremely close and loving couple.


  • #113
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,695 ✭✭✭Lisha


    This is a lovely program, Maeve had such a wonderful attitude to life, a joy to watch


  • #114
    PC CDROM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭PC CDROM


    rest in RIP


  • #115
    Judgement Day
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,549 ✭✭✭✭Judgement Day


    A terrific writer and the country is a much poorer place without her. She always came across as a very genuine person and I'm sure she would be mortified at the media overkill in their coverage of her premature demise. Sad to see the 'paper of record' cashing in on her death with a big supplement today and lots of tacky radio advertising. Not surprising that the paper has gone to the dogs in recent years given that former editor Geraldine Kennedy in her interview yesterday repeatedly referred to newspaper columns as columes. :rolleyes:

    Incidentally there's a nice boxed set of some of Maeve's best books that were adapted for film on Amazon which includes The Lilac Bus, Echoes and The Anner House. Circle of Friends and Tara are also available on DVD.

    RIP


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