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Edna O'Brien (1930–2024) was an Irish poet, short story writer, biographer, and screenwriter. Born in Tuamgraney, County Clare, she held citizenship in the Republic of Ireland and worked in the fields of poetry and short stories. Her notable works include *The country girls trilogy and epilogue*, *James Joyce*, *Tales for the telling*, and *A scandalous woman, and other stories*.
O'Brien was a member of Aosdána and the Royal Society of Literature. She served as an employee at University College Dublin. She died in London on July 27, 2024, and was buried in Inishcaltra.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1930-12-15
- Died
- 2024-07-27
- Works
- 135
Top works
- The country girls trilogy and epilogue
- The country girls trilogy and epilogue
- James Joyce
- Tales for the telling
- A scandalous woman, and other stories
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland
Edna O'Brien was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and writer for film and television.
Known for
- Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story — Self2025
- Hemingway — Herself – Writer2021
- Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless — Self2019
- Anjelica Huston on James Joyce: A Shout in the Street — Self - Writer2017
- Wild Decembers — Woman in church (uncredited)2009
- The Meaning of Life — Self2009
- À mi-mots: Edna O'Brien — Self2004
- The Life and Loves of a She-Devil — Self1986
- The Hard Way — Kathleen1980
- Question Time — Herself - Panellist1979
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Ireland
- Active from
- 1930
- Active to
- 2024
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 195
- Total plays
- 547
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Edna+O%27Brien">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Compendium of Physical Activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensities
· 2000 · cited 6,205x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,772x
- Global Prevalence of Myopia and High Myopia and Temporal Trends from 2000 through 2050
· 2016 · cited 4,711x
- Emotional processing of fear: Exposure to corrective information.
· 1986 · cited 4,298x
- Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK
· 2021 · cited 4,163x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be armed.”
- “Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.”
- “[On the banning of (her then) four novels in Ireland] I believe that mental disturbance by literature is a healthy and invigorating thing. We have plenty of comfortable and easy prose all around us, but it's by abrasion that people's prejudices are aroused.”
- “It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.”
- “Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. (Vogue, April 1985)”
- “I don't think I have ever learned the game of men and women. To this day I regret the fact that it's like a dance I couldn't learn.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Josephine Edna O'Brien , ( 1930-12-15 ) 15 December 1930, Tuamgraney , County Clare, Ireland
- Died
- 27 July 2024 (2024-07-27) (aged 93), London, England
- Resting place
- Inis Cealtra , County Clare
- Occupation
- Novelist memoirist playwright poet short-story writer
- Language
- English
- Period
- 1960–2019
- Notable works
- The Country Girls Girl with Green Eyes Girls in Their Married Bliss August Is a Wicked Month Casualties of Peace House of Splendid Isolation Down by the River Wild Decembers In the Forest The Light of Evening Saints and Sinners Country Girl The Little Red Chairs Girl
- Notable awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction , 1990 , Irish PEN Award , 2001 , Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award , 2011 , Saoi of Aosdána , 2015 , David Cohen Prize , 2019 , Ordre des Arts et des Lettres – Commandeur , 2021
- Spouse
- Ernest Gébler ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1954 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1964 )
- Children
- 2, including Carlo Gébler
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edna
- Family name
- O'Brien
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Tuamgraney
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- playwright
- Employer
- University College Dublin
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Edna O'Brien (2016).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1930-12-15
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- Commons category
- Edna O'Brien
- name in native language
- Edna O'Brien
- date of death
- 2024-07-27
- place of burial
- Inishcaltra
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Josephine Edna O'Brien DBE (15 December 1930 – 27 July 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.
O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women and their problems relating to men and society as a whole. Her first novel, The Country Girls (1960), has been credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland after the Second World War. The book was banned and denounced from the pulpit. Many of her novels were translated into French. Her memoir, Country Girl, was published in 2012, and her last novel, Girl, was published in 2019. Many of her novels were based in Ireland, especially in County Clare, but Girl was a fictional account of a victim of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping in Nigeria.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edna O'Brien” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.