Like Myra in her story A Memory, Mary Lavin lived in a mews house behind Fitzwilliam Square in Dublin. Or it may have been when we studied a story by Mary Lavin in secondary school called The Widow’s Son. [ Mary Lavin: ‘Writing for her was a kind of need. Mary Lavin in 1976. Mary Lavin in 1984.

Source: The Irish Times February 28, 2026 08:32 UTC