‘The thing about my mother,’ Finola Finlay tells me with a smile, ‘is that she is a completely unreliable narrator.’ I love Lilian Roberts-Finlay from that moment. Discovering the ‘truth’ has long ago ceased to be part of this treasure hunt. Facts I will take, documents are great, but I’ve…
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63 – La La Noo-nsense
I know better than anyone what it’s like to have an elder sibling that is hugely successful. I know how it feels to have an older brother who was always far more popular and smart and lucky than you could ever be. Thankfully, my brother wasn’t also an aspiring playwright.…
52 – Respectable Actresses & Disrespectful Women
How does a respectable girl end up on the stage? At the opening night of the gorgeous Maeve’s House in the Peacock last week, I got talking to some people about Irish women emigrating to New York and the cachet of being an Abbey actress in the 1930s. Was it…