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Edna O’Brien’s Real Feminine Mystique April 03, 2025
It’s understandable why Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, was ignored by feminists, even though the film was screened in March, which is Women’s History Month. Blue Road was shown not as part any feminist program, but as a feature in the annual Iris...
On Edna O'Brien August 12, 2024
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 r...
Edna O’Brien Was the Last Great Irish Iconoclast July 31, 2024
“Irish poets, learn your trade,” WB Yeats beseeched his contemporaries in his poem “Under Ben Bulben”, written months before his death in January 1939. It is not just a plea, but an argument too: Yeats contends that artistic greatness – immortality, ...
