The Edna O’Brien Story, Sinéad O’Shea creates a compelling tribute to one of Ireland’s most groundbreaking literary figures.

O’Brien came to prominence as the author of the book Country Girls and the subsequent sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in Their Married Bliss. Published in the 1960s, these books shot her to fame but ...

Edna was the youngest of four children ... The publication in 1960 of O'Brien's debut novel, The Country Girls, was the beginning of serious disharmony in her marriage, which worsened as her ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, a prolific Peruvian novelist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010, died Sunday in ...

Sex books written 40 years ago are among the 273 publications which will soon be unbanned after the Censorship of Publications Board is finally abolished.

Lynda Marron grew up in a small town called Prosperous in Kildare before moving to Cork, where she is still based. Her debut ...

Whilst much of the film encapsulates the glitz and glamour of Edna’s life in London, it is also coloured by a strong sense of ...

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In the opening minutes of Sinéad O’Shea’s Blue Road (2025), a new documentary about Edna O’Brien, the celebrated writer’s ... Ireland in the 1950s in her breakthrough novel, The Country Girls (1960).