Maeve Brennan

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Maeve Brennan (January 6, 1917 – November 1, 1993) was an Irish short story writer and journalist.

When her father was appointed to the Irish Legation in Washington in 1934, she moved to the United States in 1934.

She was a central figure both in Irish diaspora writing and in Irish literature itself.

Her collections of her articles, short stories, and a novella have been published.

Life

She was born in Dublin, one of four siblings, and grew up at 48 Cherryfield Avenue in Ranelagh, Dublin. Emer, Deirdre, and Maeve were among the ancient Irish Queens named after them, as Emer, Deirdre and Maeve. Robert and na Brennan, both from County Wexford, are Republicans and were instrumental in the early twentieth century's political and cultural struggles. They were involved in the 1916 Easter Rising, but although na was jailed for a few days, Robert was sentenced to death. The term was commuted to solitary servitude.

In 1917 and 1920, his continued political activity resulted in more prison sentences. Maeve was born while he was in jail. During the Irish Civil War, he was head of publicity for the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army. He created and was also the editor of The Irish Press newspaper.

Maeve Brennan's childhood was greatly divided by his paroles and activities. In her book The Day We Got Our Own Back, she reminisces about how when she was five years old, Free State agents raided her house looking for her father, who was on the run.

In 1934, Robert Brennan was appointed Ireland's first minister to the United States, and the family moved to Washington, D.C., where Maeve was seventeen. She attended the Sisters of Providence Catholic Seminary in Washington, Immaculata Seminary, 1936, graduating in 1936. In 1938, she earned a Bachelor's degree in English. When Maeve and her two siblings returned to Ireland in 1944, she and her two brothers remained in the United States.

Brennan moved to New York in the 1940s and began working as a fashion copywriter for Harper's Bazaar. She co-wrote a Manhattan column for the Dublin society newspaper Social and Personal, as well as numerous short pieces for The New Yorker newspaper. She was given a New Yorker managing editor's job in 1949 when she was offered a staff position by William Shawn, The New Yorker's managing editor.

Brennan was a social critic who first wrote for The New Yorker as a social diarist. In The Talk of the Town section of "The Long-Winded Lady," she made sketches about New York life. In addition, she has written fiction criticism, fashion essays, and essays. She wrote about both Ireland and the United States.

In 1950, Brennan's short stories were published in the New Yorker. "The Holy Terror" was the first of these stories. Mary Ramsay, a "garrulous, cynical heap of a woman," tries to hold her position as a ladies' room attendant in a Dublin hotel.

William Maxwell supported Brennan's career, and she wrote under the management editors of The New Yorker Harold Ross and William Shawn. Even though she was widely read in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, she was virtually unknown in Ireland, even though Dublin was the setting of several of her short stories.

The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker was released in 1969 as a compendium of her New Yorker papers. In and Out of Never-Never Land (1969) and Christmas Eve (1974) were also published in two collections of short stories.

Her career didn't really take off until after her death, which caused several of her stories to be reintroduced to the public, and several articles about her have been published up until her death.

Personal life

Walter Kerr, a writer and theatre critic, was reportedly the love of her life, but he dropped out on their marriage and married writer Bridget Jean Collins.

Brennan married St. Clair McKelway, the New Yorker's managing editor, in 1954. McKelway had a history of alcoholism, semimizing, and manic depression, and had been divorced four times. Brennan and McKelway separated after five years.

Edward Albee adored Brennan and compared her to Chekhov and Flaubert. "Long-Winded Lady" is one of the main characters in his play Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung's play Quotations. He dedicated Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968) and Box (1968) to her.

In the late 1960s, Brennan was writing consistently and profitably. However, by the time her first books were published, she was already showing signs of mental illness. Her erstrising appearance became unkempt. Her friends began to find her eccentricities more interesting than amusing. She became obsessive.

Brennan became agitated and alcoholic in the 1970s. She became homeless and homeless on several occasions, and she was often sleeping in The New Yorker's women's lavatory. In 1981, she was the last seen at the magazine's headquarters.

Brennan vanished from view in the 1980s, and her art was forgotten. She was accepted to Lawrence Nursing Home in Arverne after wandering from one transient hotel to another along 42nd Street.

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