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Sixty years ago, the clerics denounced Edna O’Brien. On Saturday she was welcomed home
A flotilla of lake boats carried mourners to Holy Island, where the ‘brilliant, wild, soaring and indomitable’ Irish writer was laid to rest
Edna O’Brien’s writing aimed to ‘give courage’ to those who struggled to speak out, funeral hears
President Michael D Higgins joins family and friends of novelist to pay tribute to her in Co Clare church
A man in the street shouted: ‘Cheer up love, it might never happen.’ I swore back
I felt even more angry than usual because we are in the midst of a backlash against women’s internal lives
My first encounter with Edna O’ Brien has never left me, but the last was the most difficult
In the end she never got to see the film we were working on together, her ‘opus’, she called it
‘The best place to see Edna O’Brien was at Mass’: the banned and burned author’s complex relationship with Ireland
‘You have to be dead in Ireland to be a hero. History has shown us that; there are no living martyrs’ - O’Brien’s nephew
The Irish Times view on Edna O’Brien: a writer without fear
For showing up the hypocrisies and smug pieties of her native country, she was vilified
‘I’m haunted by my mother’: The late Edna O’Brien, interviewed by the late Eileen Battersby
The Irish Times journalist, who died in 2018, interviewed O’Brien – who has died aged 93 – in her London home in 2006
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Anne Enright on Edna O’Brien: She never left Ireland, yet couldn’t live here either
The author Edna O'Brien shone a light for the writers who followed her, who took courage from her courage
Writers pay tribute to Edna O’Brien, whose fearless honesty changed Ireland
President Michael D Higgins among those saluting a ‘superb writer possessed of the moral courage to confront Irish society’ who has died in London at 93
Writers pay tribute to Edna O’Brien: her voice ‘was loud as a bell; fluid and intelligent’
President Michael D Higgins, Eimear McBride, John Banville, Sinéad Gleeson, Nuala O’Connor and others pay tribute to late Irish writer
Irish author Edna O’Brien has died aged 93
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘fearless teller of truths’ who died peacefully on Saturday after long illness
Edna O’Brien obituary: flamboyant, fearless, and outspoken Irish writer
Novelist, short-story writer, playwright and screenwriter had well-publicised love-hate relationship with her native country
Carlo Gébler on his mother Edna O’Brien: Coming to the end
Edna O’Brien, one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers, has died at the age of 93
I wanted to write a book about Irish women’s writing. They told me to include men
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
Hilary Fannin: My pals and I didn’t understand the stern forces that extinguished our youth
I was 17, working in a restaurant, smoking Rothmans and reading Edna O’Brien
Lucy Caldwell: ‘In ways it was a normal childhood...and yet’
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Lake people of Lough Derg: ‘I love looking at the water. It makes me calm’
Ireland’s third-biggest lake casts a unique spell over the locals living on or close to it
Wild Atlantic women: Following in their footsteps along the west coast
Gráinne Lyons spent three months learning about women connected to the landscape
House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
An Irish playwright in New York: Lines remain unlearned, curtains unraised, seats unfilled
I’ll write to make the actors cry again – laugh, too. We’ll need a laugh after this
Acts of Desperation: Bracing, poignant and devastatingly accurate
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John Buckley McQuaid: ‘Ireland’s silence is a comfort zone’
The expat artist’s new album tackles the omertà over his home country’s recent past
Fintan O’Toole: Spiritual terrorism created world of mother and baby homes
There was no ‘society’ separate from the church’s power to inflict damnation
‘Ten of the best books set in Ireland’: Does the Guardian get it right?
In this article the paper says novels by Sally Rooney and Colm Tóibín will transport you here
Dalkey villa with design in every detail for €3.5 million
Former home of writer Ernest Gébler cleverly transformed for relaxed contemporary living
Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of love
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown
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‘I have a ritual of making tea, lighting a candle and then I am gone into my fictional world’
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