Sinead O’Shea, director of the forthcoming documentary Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, spent the last year working with her, as they met for hours of interviews. “Edna was very funny ...

I was born with the ability and the demon to write. I have been punished for it constantly.” Written and directed by Sinéad O ...

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 last year at the age of 93. The last person to be granted an interview with her was the documentary maker Sinéad O’Shea. Her new film Blue Road weaves those final ...

For a long time Edna O’Brien, the celebrated Irish-born, London-dwelling writer, has been known as one of the literary world’s great chroniclers of love. Of love and longing and the desperate ...

Mrs. O’Brien moved to Denver, Colorado in the early 1950s after graduating from Andrew Jackson High School in Jacksonville, Florida in 1950. She became a legal secretary, working for James D.

Handsome, white-bearded Vlad calls himself a poet and healer. He ingratiates himself... Edna O'Brien, Author, Edna O'Brien, Read by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-618-06660-5 ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In her eighties, novelist Edna O’Brien — who died last year aged 93 — was awarded the status of “Saoi”, an ...

Edna O'Brien, Ireland's literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel ''The Country Girls'' before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast ...

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