A knighthood, a lifetime achievement award and a hit theatre production of The Line of Beauty… the author on a year of personal success and political change
If there can be a downside to receiving a l…
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On Friendship by Andrew O’Hagan review – ties that bind ⊕
The novelist on the relationships that shaped his life, from schoolmates to the Rolling Stones and Edna O’Brien
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‘You think rape’s your fault’: Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker on her devastating memoir ○
She had a zest for life that propelled her to the heights of stage and screen – but behind all this lay a shocking story of violence, grooming and abuse. From her bed, flanked by pills and cigarettes…
10 months ago
Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story review – richly bittersweet portrait of an Irish literary great ○
The dizzy highs and painful lows of the late writer’s life are laid bare in Sinéad O’Shea’s moving documentary
Her raw, sexually and emotionally frank prose made her a sensation and got the Irish Cath…
‘You must read my diaries’: unlocking the private life of Edna O’Brien ○
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Towards the end of her life, the groundbreaking Irish novelist granted film-maker Sinéad O’Shea access to her most personal writing. What she revealed was shocking and inspiring
‘Sinéad, you must read…
12 months ago
Niall Williams: ‘When I first read Chekhov, I thought: “He’s not so great”’ ○
The Irish author on Enid Blyton at bedtimes, discovering Dickens, and the brilliance of Edna O’Brien
My earliest reading memory
I am sitting at the kitchen table at home in Dublin. I am home from sch…
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