{"id":429086,"date":"2026-05-02T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429086\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:10:08","slug":"funeral-service-for-gordon-snell-will-take-place-next-week-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/429086\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral service for Gordon Snell will take place next week \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"> A funeral service will take place next week to celebrate the \u201cwonderful life\u201d of children\u2019s author and journalist Gordon Snell, the husband of the late Maeve Binchy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Snell (93) died peacefully at home on Wednesday. A notice on Rip.ie says that Snell, who was late of Dalkey in Dublin and London, will be \u201cdeeply missed by his loving relations and many good friends and carers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A funeral service will take place at 10am next Tuesday (May 5th) at the Victorian Chapel at Mount Jerome, Harold\u2019s Cross in Dublin. It can be viewed online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mountjerome.ie\/victorian-chapel-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.mount Jerome.ie<\/a> and remation will follow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Snell was born in Singapore in 1932. At the age of ten he went to boarding school in Australia. He spent several years in Australia with his family. When his family returned to the UK, Snell went to Oxford to study English language and literature.  He later became a radio studio manager with the BBC overseas service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Snell published his first book for children in 1978. The King of Quizzical Island tells the story of a King who had a quest to find the edge of the world. When Snell moved to Ireland he wrote a number of scripts for RT\u00c9 including Wanderly Wagon. He wrote over 70 books for children as well as comedy for adults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Snell first met Binchy he was a producer with the BBC in London and she was a contributor to BBC Radio 4.  They married in 1977 and set up home in Dalkey where they worked harmoniously side by side until her death in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Snell and Binchy always dedicated their books to each other. However, in 2018 Snell told RT\u00c9 that he decided not to dedicate his books to anyone following her death as no one could \u201creplace her.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A funeral service will take place next week to celebrate the \u201cwonderful life\u201d of children\u2019s author and journalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37468,93,61,60,185358],"class_list":["post-429086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dalkey","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-maeve-binchy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}