| Description |
587 pages (large print) ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Selected essays as published in The Irish times over fifty years. |
| Summary |
Collects the best of the author's essays from five decades of the "Irish Times" to reflect a changing culture as well as her observations on such topics as the royal wedding, waitressing, and boring airline companions. |
| Contents |
Introduction by Gordon Snell Sixties -- School Outing -- Just plane bores -- But does anybody care? -- A Turkish bath -- Life as a waitress -- Back to school -- Thinking about underwear down under -- The nonsense of etiquette Seventies -- The world's greatest lies about women -- Baby blues -- Women are foold-Mary -- Women are fools-Lorraine -- Women are fools-Sandy -- Pageantry and splendour at Westminster for the royal wedding -- How to speak -- Who sent this postcard? -- Holiday romance -- I was a winter sport -- Keeping faith with my dear, Dear Dublin -- The couple who behaved perfectly -- A snatch at some happiness -- Vanity of vanity, all is vanity -- A nice, traditional, normal sort of Patrick's Day -- The day we nearly wrote a sex book -- A week of self-improvement -- Violet -- Anna's abortion -- Idiotic queues -- Bathroom joggers -- Happy hypochondria -- The man in South Anne street -- A magic meeting -- Do it honestly or not at all Two news reports -- Hope and bitter memories Eighties -- The tight to die in your own home -- When Beckett met Binchy -- Fit for a queen -- Contraceptive conversation -- The happy couple -- Encounters at the airport -- Up in the clouds with Charlie Haughey -- Election brings life to an ageing society -- Maeve's operation: The whole story -- Keeping cruise off the roads is new priority -- Develop your own style -- One eye on bargains, One eye on alsatians -- A tipperary Robin Hood -- Maeve on Margaret Thatcher -- No figs, no food, - it's no fun being fergie -- It was one of those custard heart days -- The man who set up office in the ladies -- A royal romance spelling danger from the start -- Making a spectacle of myself Nineties -- Even the presidents are getting youner -- My Theodora story -- Heading for the hustings -- Please don't forget to write -- Casually elegant meets the mob -- They'll never let her go - There is no excuse -- Fear of falling off the wagon -- Getting it right at the end -- For tired read terrible -- Traveller's tales - The call of the check-in des-- Love's last day out -- A walk on the wild side -- Peter panic attack -- Little person! Tiny person! -- Fighting February -- She didn't do so badly -- Curmudgeons of summer -- The fall -- Let's talk Gridlock -- "They've gone and dumped Porillo..." -- Mrs perfect -- Death in Kilburn -- Saved by the wiles of Cupid -- Just don't ask -- Bleach sniffers on my desk -- Talking on various ships passing in the night -- Sweet dreams -- Staving off the senior moments 2000s -- Mr Gageby -- Another world for the price of a cup of coffee -- 'One up for the cardigans' -- My part in movies -- Striking a pose for my country -- Ten things you must never say to anyone with arthritis -- What's it like to have a house full of film crew? -- Let me tell you all about it -- Will and Kate show is testaiment to abiding allure of the royals Postscript -- 'I don't have any regrets about any roads i didn't take...' (in conversation with Joanne Hunt) -- Editor's acknowledgements. |
| Subject |
English essays -- Irish authors.
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| Genre |
Large type books.
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| Added Author |
Ingle, Róisín, editor.
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Snell, Gordon, writer of introduction.
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| Added Title |
Irish times (Dublin, Ireland : 1874)
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| ISBN |
9781410473905 (hardcover : large print) |
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1410473902 (hardcover : large print) |
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