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Obituary: Edna O'Brien, the controversial Irish novelist
BBC News· 3 days agoEdna O'Brien will always be known as the controversial Irish novelist who scandalised Catholic...
How Edna O'Brien's archives illuminate her work
RTÉ News· 3 days agoOver the past five years, I have had the pleasure of investigating the archives of two of the twentieth century’s major authors, Ireland’s own Edna O’Brien (who passed away today) and her Jewish-American ...
Edna O’Brien obituary: flamboyant, fearless, and outspoken Irish writer
The Irish Times· 3 days agoThe Irish-born, London-based novelist, short-story writer, playwright and screenwriter, Edna O’Brien...
My encounter with Edna O’Brien, the great literary crusader and giant of Irish literature
The Independent· 1 day agoTRIBUTE: The death of Edna O’Brien at the age of 93 brings an end to the long reign of one of...
Claire Kilroy: ‘My moral compass has turned 180 degrees on Lolita’
The Guardian· 5 days agoAnna Sewell’s Black Beauty when I was about eight or nine, sitting in the back of my mother’s parked Mini one hot summer’s day, my legs burning on the red vinyl seat, and bawling because they ...
Irish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93
The Guardian· 3 days agoThe Irish writer Edna O’Brien, who explored the complications and contradictions of women’s lives in a literary career lasting more than half a century, has died aged 93 after a long illness ...
Anne Enright on Edna O’Brien: Unyielding in how she lived, worked and believed
The Irish Times· 3 days agoEdna O’Brien was a great Irish icon and in the afterglow of her long, productive and famous life, it...
Dame Edna O’Brien, acclaimed writer whose early novels caused outrage in her native Ireland –...
Daily Telegraph· 3 days agoIt was from behind the counter of a chemist’s shop that she met Ernest Gebler, a failed Irish-Czech...
