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AN ASYLUM FOR MY AFFECTIONS: Sketches of Maeve Brennan

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An anthology of essays exploring Maeve Brennan’s life, work, and enduring influence through contemporary Irish perspectives.

In a letter to her editor at The New Yorker, the Irish writer Maeve Brennan described the emotional landscape provided by her mother:

She gave me an ‘asylum for my affections’ and I learned that my affections so far exceeded her ability to understand me that she came near to drowning.

In this new anthology of essays about Maeve Brennan, ten contemporary Irish writers con...