This week, Miriam O'Callaghan talks to Eamon Morrissey and his wife Ane.
Eamon is an actor and he tells Miriam about his latest show which is based on the life of the Dublin writer Maeve Brennan. As well as admiring her work, Eamon grew up in the same house that had lived in - a house that features regularly in her stories.
Anne first saw Eamon when he was a newborn baby and she was an eighteen month old child. She lived with a cousin who ran a nursing home in Dublin as she had been born outside marriage. She recalls for Miriam the experience of meeting her birth mother as a teenager.
Eamon and Anne met as adults when Eamon came into the travel agency where Anne worked to buy a ticket to go to London. His career took off and she visited him while he appeared on Broadway, firstly in Philadelphia, Here I Come and later in Lovers. It was during the run of Lovers that they married.
Eamon and Anne talk about the importance of silence in their lives. They are now married for more than forty years, but their marriage has had its ups and downs. Eamon explains how they had a" trial separation for more than a year, but it didn't work". They are now back together and they maintain their marraige by spending time apart as well as time together. Anne is interested in Christian meditation, Eamon spends time at their cottage at Aughavannagh in County Wicklow. They have two adult children and four grandchildren.
Eamon tells Miriam about the pressures of performing. They tell Miriam about their plans for their funerals and their views on the afterlife.
They chose Raglan Road sung by Luke Kelly; Adam and Eve Duet from Haydn's Creation and St James' Infirmary by Louis Armsrong