Maeve binchy biography piers

Piers Dudgeon applies the same, in-depth research to his account of Maeve's life as he did to that of Catherine Cookson. On that occasion, I came away from reading the book wondering if I liked Catherine any more. However, in Maeve's case, he only serves to endear us to Maeve even more. Maeve had no hidden agenda, save that of being modest almost to a fault. Whilst aspects of her everyday life were freely vaunted in her Irish Times column, and with interviews she gave over the years, Maeve downplayed the wide variety of her life experience, from living on a kibbutz to reporting from Cyprus, in dangerous conditions, during the unrest in She travelled extensively, often alone, before meeting up with her soulmate and husband, Gordon Snell. Piers' research penetrates the layers of Maeve's persona, setting aside her unassuming modesty, and reveals a woman ahead of her time, one who would never be subsumed into a subservient role in Ireland. One little niggle which rankled me, as a Historian, was Piers referring to Henry VIII as a Protestant. Whilst Henry, having distanced himself from Rome following differences when he sought to divorce Catherine of Aragon, made himself Supreme Head of the Church, and went on to dissolve the monasteries - l

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