Back to the beginning

Eamon Morrissey talks to Pádraic Killeen about his links with writer Maeve Brennan, the subject of his new show

VETERAN Irish actor Eamon Morrissey this week premieres a new show, Maeve’s House, at the Peacock Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Directed by Gerald Stembridge, the one-man show is inspired by the writings of Maeve Brennan, the celebrated short story writer who wrote for The New Yorker in the 1950s and 1960s.

“She is a neglected author in the Irish canon,” says Morrissey. “And she is very definitely an Irish writer, even though she lived most of her life in New York. She’s in that difficult situation where the Americans regard her as an Irish writer and the Irish regard her as an American writer. Both nations should be proud to claim her.”