2 Maeve Binchy in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, edited by John Quinn (Methuen, 1986). 3 Every biography and newspaper gives 1940 as the year in which she was born, and her age was given as seventy-two when she died in July 2012. But her birth certificate states plainly and unequivocally that she was born on 29 May 1939. 4 Maeve Binchy, A Week in Winter (Orion, 2012). 5 Donal Lynch, Sunday Independent, 2012. 6 Clifton School, which today is a private residence called Summerfield Lodge. Joyce taught there for a term. 7 The Martello tower at Sandycove has contained a museum dedicated to Joyce since Bloomsday 1962, though, as I write, cutbacks have reduced staffing to volunteer status. 8 The Binchy Archive, James Joyce Library, University College Dublin. 9 Interview with Jessica Simmons, The Guardian, November 2010.
