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Edna O’Brien interview – ‘You have to be lonely to be a writer’ – video
More than half a century after scandalising the world with her taboo-breaking novel The Country Girls, the Irish writer Edna O’Brien is still going strong. As her memoir Country Girl is publishe… more →
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The best books in the world
wrote 1 week ago: I’m starting this blog because books – mainly novels and poetry – are central to m … more →
No noise in her head
wrote 1 week ago: I’ve been reading Edna O’Brien’s memoir Country Girl. We lived parallel lives in London in the 60’s, … more →
sixteen delicious and delirious hours with edna o'brien. @littlebrown
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wrote 2 weeks ago: darlings the jet lag has descended and not-having-our-reading-glasses (grrr, Delta Airlines Lost Pro … more →
Four on Friday: Walking Ulysses, The New York Times on Tóibín and O'Brien and The Gallery Press on YouTube
wrote 2 weeks ago: Here’s the start of the blurb, by Joycean scholar Joseph Nugent, of what must be a unique new … more →
Woman's Choice, July 1970 - Edna O'Brien on Cover
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Another Irish weekly from the late 60′s/70′s was Woman’s Choice. We’ve poste … more →
Tonight's Kindle capture: Edna O'Brien's Country Girl
wrote 2 weeks ago: She’s freshly downloaded and ready for some quality sleepytime reading, thanks to today’ … more →
Cúirt 2013
wrote 3 weeks ago: Tiny lambs dotted the landscape as the bus sped towards Galway. I was anxious to reunite with friend … more →
From Galway to the Gate: This week’s notable literary events around Ireland
wrote 4 weeks ago: There are few places I would rather be this week than Galway for the annual Cúirt International Fest … more →
Green ? Did you say green ?
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wrote 1 month ago: On April 8th, I posted this blog about the colour green in a way of feeling closer to a Spring that … more →
'Close to Home' by Michael Crowley
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wrote 1 month ago: -Reviewed by Billy Mills- Close to Home is the debut poetry collection of playwright and youth justi … more →
Cornucopia II
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wrote 1 month ago: (Go to ‘Cornucopia I’ for the first in this series of posts) …but first a word fro … more →
Edna O'Brien - The Love Object
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wrote 1 month ago: The inevitable disappointment of love I received this as a pre-release digital copy for review from … more →
Book Review: The Love Object Stories by Edna O'Brien
wrote 1 month ago: There are eight short stories in The Love Object Stories by Edna O’Brien. The first short stor … more →
words & music for st. patrick's day every day
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wrote 2 months ago: I’m a bit ambivalent about St. Patrick’s Day. What is it about March 17th that renders s … more →
5 Irish Novelists Who Aren't James Fecking Joyce
wrote 2 months ago: “I declare to God,” swore Flann O’Brien in the middle of the twentieth century, … more →
For the day that's in it
wrote 2 months ago: Macleod Agencies is an Irish agency which proudly represents international and home grown labels. Ir … more →
Weekly Round-Up: The Mother's Day Special
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wrote 2 months ago: Time for this week’s round-up of the best of the blogs which I’ve read over the past week. These are … more →
Thank you to a scandalous woman . . .
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wrote 2 months ago: It is International Women’s Day, and I am mad at my brother. It might as well be 1974, the two … more →
Other people's lives.
wrote 2 months ago: I couldn’t think of a single thing to write about. No, truly. I thought to write about Edna O … more →
