Edna O’Brien, whose Country Girls trilogy was burned on its arrival in 1960, is dead at 93, having died ‘peacefully’ after a long illness. The Country Girls books tell of a girl leaving rural Ireland for school, then Dublin, then London. It’s worth repeating that the Irish word for emigrant, ‘deoraí’, means ‘one who has shed tears’. Kate wishes “that Mama was in heaven, that my father would never drink again, and that Mr. Gentleman [love interest] would not forget to come at one o’clock.”
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