Maeve Brennan, best known for her Long-Winded Lady vignettes appearing in the New Yorker was an Irish-born writer and journalist throughout the 1950’s and ‘60’s. Her wit, style, beauty and charm are the stuff of New York legend, and her sardonic observations of life in New York attract fans to this day.
 
Through heartbreak, divorce, loneliness and eventual mental illness. Maeve Brennan’s columns consisted of breezy send-ups of society and social tradition while also touching on her feelings about travel, holidays and home. She wrote fiction about her native Ireland, and could be both scathing and tender as she detailed the lives of people in a country clinging stubbornly to traditions steeped in the church and convention.
 
Born in Dublin in 1917 to parents fighting for Irish independence, Maeve Brennan’s was Life from the start. At 17, she came with her family to Washington, DC (Her father, Robert Brennan, was Ireland’s first Ambassador to the U.S.) While her sisters and brother eventually settled into the traditional roles of their gender and social background, Maeve became an unexpected maverick.

Come and enjoy a staged reading of selections from Maeve Brennan’s The Long-Winded Lady and The Springs of Affection presented by Mona Voelkel and Friends, with permission from Counterpoint Press.

Have dinner, learn about Maeve's amazing life, and leave with a book.  Doesn't that sound like a perfect evening?