“I pursued the glitz for a while. And I don’t regret it. But I know it wasn’t the real thing. It wasn’t the real thing.” This sentiment, which could almost be poetry or song lyrics, is spoken by Edna ...

The great Irish novelist and playwright Edna O’Brien died at the age of 93 on July 27, 2024 after a long illness. A controversial figure from the start, her first novel from 1960, The Country Girls, ...

In a diary entry from May 1967, read by Jessie Buckley at the start of Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, the subject writes: “Ah, the trees, how tortured they are. If anyone has to ask me about the ...

Irish writer Edna O'Brien died Saturday at the age of 93 after a long illness. O'Brien sparked controversy in Ireland for the way she wrote about women's lives and relationships, as NPR's Isabella ...

Forty years on, Sex and the City was on TV, so a novel depicting the chaste lives of a couple of schoolgirls wasn’t particularly scandalous. Still, though, The Country Girls – a story of two girls ...

In 1960 Edna O'Brien took an axe to the frozen sea of Irish social conformity with her sexually charged debut novel "The County Girls". In Ireland, the book was immediately banned – and burned. Now a ...

The great Irish novelist and playwright Edna O’Brien died at the age of 93 on July 27, 2024 after a long illness. A controversial figure from the start, her first novel from 1960, The Country Girls, ...