#ednaobrien — Public Fediverse posts
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Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story gets a release date. Details here https://bit.ly/4kPRm4Z
#BlueRoadTheEdnaOBrienStrory #film #documentary #EdnaOBrien #Ireland #author #writer #TheCountryGirls #book #SinéadOShea
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Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story gets a release date. Details here https://bit.ly/4kPRm4Z
#BlueRoadTheEdnaOBrienStrory #film #documentary #EdnaOBrien #Ireland #author #writer #TheCountryGirls #book #SinéadOShea
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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon my favourite thing atm is choosing an author I’ve read a bit of, and finding or setting up a reading challenge on @thestorygraph of all their work, so I can (re-)read everything in order. Currently doing this with #ASByatt, #EdnaOBrien, #JackKerouac and #DavidFosterWallace.
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August goes by wickedly fast...
Remembering the uncompromising Edna O'Brien (1930-2024) -
August goes by wickedly fast...
Remembering the uncompromising Edna O'Brien (1930-2024) -
We use "warmth" but not "coolth" – at least, not usually. New post on a rare word:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2024/08/16/birth-of-the-coolth/
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We use "warmth" but not "coolth" – at least, not usually. New post on a rare word:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2024/08/16/birth-of-the-coolth/
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"We say to ourselves: 'Where will it all lead us to?' and coax the fates to take us on to disaster." —Edna O'Brien
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"We say to ourselves: 'Where will it all lead us to?' and coax the fates to take us on to disaster." —Edna O'Brien
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"She insisted that literature was a precursor to sin and damnation, whereas I believed it was the only alchemy that there was."
—Edna O'Brien, Saints and Sinners, 2011
#EdnaOBrien #IrishLiterature #IrishBooks #writing #words #literature
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"She insisted that literature was a precursor to sin and damnation, whereas I believed it was the only alchemy that there was."
—Edna O'Brien, Saints and Sinners, 2011
#EdnaOBrien #IrishLiterature #IrishBooks #writing #words #literature
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"I'm not a bad match," he said. "I've a pump in the yard, a bull and a brother a priest. What more could a woman want?"
—Edna O'Brien, Girl with Green Eyes (aka The Lonely Girl), 1962
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"I'm not a bad match," he said. "I've a pump in the yard, a bull and a brother a priest. What more could a woman want?"
—Edna O'Brien, Girl with Green Eyes (aka The Lonely Girl), 1962
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Sad to hear that Edna O'Brien has died. What an amazing body of work she leaves, and what a life she had. The controversy over her early books had ebbed by the time I started reading her, but the elegance of her writing and the power of her stories remained, and remains, unaltered
#EdnaOBrien #IrishLiterature #IrishBooks #Ireland #books #writing
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Sad to hear that Edna O'Brien has died. What an amazing body of work she leaves, and what a life she had. The controversy over her early books had ebbed by the time I started reading her, but the elegance of her writing and the power of her stories remained, and remains, unaltered
#EdnaOBrien #IrishLiterature #IrishBooks #Ireland #books #writing
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Edna O'Brien, Irish literary giant who wrote 'The Country Girls,' dies at 93
'The vitality of her prose was a mirror of her zest for life'
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Edna O'Brien, Irish literary giant who wrote 'The Country Girls,' dies at 93
'The vitality of her prose was a mirror of her zest for life'
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CW: Death of a public figure
I just heard this evening about the death of Edna O'Brien. An amazing person, author, figure - so often standing against and challenging so much of Ireland's establishment and powerful interests at a time when, for most people, that was impossible. RIP.
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CW: Death of a public figure
I just heard this evening about the death of Edna O'Brien. An amazing person, author, figure - so often standing against and challenging so much of Ireland's establishment and powerful interests at a time when, for most people, that was impossible. RIP.
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#EdnaOBrien ist gestorben. Sie wurde 93 Jahre alt. Das ist ein schöner Nachruf auf sie und ihr außerordentliches Werk:
#Literatur #literature #rip #bookstodon #womenwriters #IrishLiterature
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/07/28/irish-author-edna-obrien-has-died-aged-93/ -
#EdnaOBrien ist gestorben. Sie wurde 93 Jahre alt. Das ist ein schöner Nachruf auf sie und ihr außerordentliches Werk:
#Literatur #literature #rip #bookstodon #womenwriters #IrishLiterature
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/07/28/irish-author-edna-obrien-has-died-aged-93/ -
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#RitaTushingham, #PeterFinch and a stellar debut from scene stealing #LynnRedgrave. Based on an #EdnaOBrien novel
#GirlwithGreenEyes (1964) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058142/
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CW: #streetsofdublin #streetart #dublin
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Profi wneud dolen o app #StoryGraph - ydy hyn yn gweithio?
#EdnaOBrien - Johnny I Hardly Knew You
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e98c440b-eb4d-4669-92b6-eca4f9200060 #DarllenNawr
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“Writing and reading … those two intensities that have buttressed my whole life.” Edna O’Brien, born #OTD in 1930 #EdnaOBrien #writing #reading
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“Writing and reading … those two intensities that have buttressed my whole life.” Edna O’Brien, born #OTD in 1930 #EdnaOBrien #writing #reading
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Edna O'Brien's prose lines up words and sentences like smart, spirited children on school photo day
#writing #reading #books #bookstodon #literature #EdnaOBrien #IrishLiterature #IrishBooks
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Edna O'Brien's prose lines up words and sentences like smart, spirited children on school photo day
#writing #reading #books #bookstodon #literature #EdnaOBrien #IrishLiterature #IrishBooks
