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Day: 31 July 2024

Remembering Edna O’Brien

Edna O’Brien in 2013 by photographer James Davies.

It is with sadness that the Irish Writers Union (IWU) notes the passing of Edna O’Brien at 93. A writer far ahead of her time who spoke with her own voice, she was the first Irish writer to write honestly about social and sexual issues faced by women at a time when Ireland was going […]

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