Life
1946- ; b. Kilkenny; stories and a novel, Scenes from a Country Wedding (1982). DIL
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Commentary
Maurice Harmon, ‘First Impressions: 1968-78’, in Terence Brown & Patrick Rafroidi, eds., The Irish Short Story (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1979): ‘Maura Treacy’s characters have an active inner life in which they imagine things happening, projecting and acting out their fears and phantasies, as Nally does in “The Weight of the World”. For the most part, her stories are low-keyed, psychological vignettes about human relationships. In a gentle, reflective manner, she treats of loneliness, dissatisfaction, longing for improved conditions. Her characters watch and wait ; they hope for change, as does Delia in “An Old Story”, but there is really little change. Delia, for example, dreams of women with a home, [68][ with children, wioth a husband who will take them for a drive on a Sunday. When she does marry, her husband goes fishing on Sunday, as he has always done. What else should she have expected?’ (pp.68-69.)
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