For Marianne Faithfull, Ireland was where one of the most misunderstood women in music could make sense of her life
Ireland also gave the singer a first hit for nearly a decade, after ‘a deejay by the name of Patrick Kenny started to play it’
Marianne Faithfull
Singer and actor Marianne Faithfull dies aged 78
Star of 1960s first found popularity with song As Tears Go By
Lady of the house: Astronomers, botanists and antiquarians are the women behind some of Ireland’s great houses
Women have played an often unsung role in the history of Ireland, and of our great houses. This summer, why not take a trip to visit them?
I Heard Her Call My Name, A Memoir of Transition by Lucy Sante: lives unlived
A story of displacement, post-1960s bohemia and a longing unsatisfied until the author’s seventh decade
Various: The Faithful - A Tribute to Marianne Faithfull: A mixed bag in aid of a singular voice and deserving cause
Profits from the album go directly to assist the singer as she recovers from long Covid
Aimee Mann: ‘Any woman my age is traumatised by growing up in the 60s and 70s’
US indie icon talks about her childhood kidnapping and her repressive upbringing
Faithfull Friend – on the late Paddy Rossmore, a reluctant celebrity who revolutionised drug treatment in Ireland
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Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis: She Walks in Beauty – A love affair with the Romantic poets
The English singer fulfils a long-held desire to draw on the works of Byron, Keats, Shelley et al
Marianne Faithfull on nearly dying of Covid-19: ‘My lungs are still not okay. I need oxygen’
The singer can’t remember intensive care. ‘I was in a very dark place – presumably, it was death’
Desmond Guinness: Socialite on a mission to save Ireland’s Georgian heritage
Obituary: He revived the Irish Georgian Society, and influenced State policy on historic houses
Mel Gibson hospitalised after contracting coronavirus in April
The actor spent a week in hospital after contracting Covid-19
Phil Coulter: ‘Music saved my sanity... and my life’
The ‘anthem’ writer and hitmaker on his Derry childhood, two marriages and life in music
Lucian Freud portrait of Guinness heir as a boy sells for €6.7m
‘Jewel of a painting’ dates from 1956, when Freud was a guest at Luggala, Co Wicklow
Rare Lucian Freud portrait of Guinness heir as a boy expected to sell for over €7m
Artist, who eloped with a Guinness in the early 1950s, painted portrait in Co Wicklow
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teenage years in ‘bombed out’ New York
Sara Driver has made a fascinating chronicle of the late American artist’s formative years
Glin Castle taken off market as family considers luxury rental
Fitzgeralds decide to hold onto home that has been in the family for 700 years
Book marks 40th year of Macroom Mountain Dew Festival
Rory Gallagher, Van Morrison, Phil Lynott, Elvis Costello among past performers
Night falls on Glin Castle in Limerick after 700 years
Glin Castle – ancestral home of the FitzGerald clan – is one of the last great Irish castles
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