Joined The Irish Times in 1968

My first book [Irish Times Compilation] (1970)

Met writer and broadcaster, Gordon Snell in 1972

Married in 1977

Jacobs Award for Deeply Regretted By [play for RTE] (1978)

Short stories: Central Line (1978) Victoria Line (1980)

Light a Penny Candle (1982)

Dublin 4 (1982)

The Lilac Bus (1984)

Echoes (1985)

Firefly Summer (1987)

Echoes, TV series (1988)

Silver Wedding (1988)

Circle of Friends (1990)

The Lilac Bus, TV film (1990)

The Copper Beech (1992)

The Glass Lake (1994)

This Year it Will be Different (1995)

Circle of Friends, film (1995)

Cross Lines (1996)

Evening Classes (1996)

The Return Journey (1997)

Tara Road (1998)

Oprah Winfrey Show (1999)

British Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award (1999)

Aches and Pains (with Illustrations by Wendy Shea) (1999)

Scarlet Feather (2000)

Quentins (2002)

Nights of rain and stars (2004)

Tara Road film (2005)

Star Sullivan (2006)

Whitethorn Woods (2006)

How About You film (2007)

Irish PEN Award (2007)

Heart and Soul (2008)

End of Term (Play) (2009)

Lifetime Achievement at the Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards,

Presented by President Mary McAleese (2010)

Minding Frankie (2010)

A Week in Summer (Short Story) (2011)

A Week in Winter (2012) Published posthumously

Chestnut Street (2013) Published posthumously

Maeve’s Times   (a selection of her IRISH TIMES articles)   (2013)

A Few of the Girls, short stories (2015) Published posthumously