A new generation of Irish artists is teaching us that we are global citizens
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Edna O’Brien
Articles about Irish author and playwright Edna O’Brien: 1930-2024
Chef d’equipe Michael Blake: ‘When your children start beating you, you should stop. So I started helping them instead’
What Blake loves most about horses is ‘their intelligence. I especially love trying to understand the difficult ones’
Seán Rocks: Ireland has lost one of its great cultural champions
Late broadcaster’s easy wit and big-hearted spirit belied a lifelong devotion to our rich culture
Bookish breaks: Get inspired with these literary destinations, from Castletownshend to the French Riviera
To celebrate Bloomsday on June 16th, we explore spots that inspired famous writers to create their classics
A breakthrough era for women’s writing, from Edna O’Brien’s risks to JK Rowling’s Harry Potter debut
In the penultimate instalment of her series on women’s writing, Paula McGrath focuses on the second half of the 1990s
Amid all of the toxic masculinity, no one mentions the toxic femininity that supports it
When the institutions of the land imply women are inferior, it’s hard not to doubt yourself
Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story review: Was Ireland this dire? It really was
Sinéad O’Shea’s documentary is remarkable, though, for its consideration of an extraordinary life
Edna O’Brien: ‘She could be so queenly and dominating, but then totally wounded by criticism’
With the release of her Edna O’Brien documentary imminent, documentary maker Sinéad O’Shea talks about the late writer’s remarkable and often difficult life
50 films to see in 2025, from Babygirl to You’re Cordially Invited
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
Tony O’Reilly, Nell McCafferty, Ian Bailey and more: 50 people who died in 2024
The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 110 people this year, from entrepreneurs to musicians to journalists. Here is a selection
Carlo Gébler: ‘I want Irish unification and Northern Ireland in Europe. We do not belong in a UK that is not in Europe’
The writer talks about his new book, the future of Northern Ireland and a treasured pen
Sally Rooney: ‘There is something Christian about my work, even if I would not describe myself as religious’
Intermezzo author reflects on Joyce, how Christianity has shaped her thinking, and her dislike of the limelight
Edna O’Brien talked about a book-burning of The Country Girls in rural Clare. But did it actually happen?
Plus: Dave Grohl’s Kerry drive in 1994; rhododendron set for ban; and some interesting local government ethics declarations
Sixty years ago, the clerics denounced Edna O’Brien. On Saturday she was welcomed home
A flotilla of lake boats carried mourners to Holy Island, where the ‘brilliant, wild, soaring and indomitable’ Irish writer was laid to rest
Edna O’Brien’s writing aimed to ‘give courage’ to those who struggled to speak out, funeral hears
President Michael D Higgins joins family and friends of novelist to pay tribute to her in Co Clare church
A man in the street shouted: ‘Cheer up love, it might never happen.’ I swore back
I felt even more angry than usual because we are in the midst of a backlash against women’s internal lives
My first encounter with Edna O’ Brien has never left me, but the last was the most difficult
In the end she never got to see the film we were working on together, her ‘opus’, she called it
‘The best place to see Edna O’Brien was at Mass’: the banned and burned author’s complex relationship with Ireland
‘You have to be dead in Ireland to be a hero. History has shown us that; there are no living martyrs’ - O’Brien’s nephew
The Irish Times view on Edna O’Brien: a writer without fear
For showing up the hypocrisies and smug pieties of her native country, she was vilified
‘I’m haunted by my mother’: The late Edna O’Brien, interviewed by the late Eileen Battersby
The Irish Times journalist, who died in 2018, interviewed O’Brien – who has died aged 93 – in her London home in 2006
Monday’s top stories: Housing overtakes immigration as top voters’ issue; Kellie Harrington ready to pursue second Olympic title
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Writers pay tribute to Edna O’Brien, whose fearless honesty changed Ireland
President Michael D Higgins among those saluting a ‘superb writer possessed of the moral courage to confront Irish society’ who has died in London at 93
Anne Enright on Edna O’Brien: She never left Ireland, yet couldn’t live here either
The author Edna O'Brien shone a light for the writers who followed her, who took courage from her courage
Writers pay tribute to Edna O’Brien: her voice ‘was loud as a bell; fluid and intelligent’
President Michael D Higgins, Eimear McBride, John Banville, Sinéad Gleeson, Nuala O’Connor and others pay tribute to late Irish writer
Irish author Edna O’Brien has died aged 93
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘fearless teller of truths’ who died peacefully on Saturday after long illness
Edna O’Brien obituary: flamboyant, fearless, and outspoken Irish writer
Novelist, short-story writer, playwright and screenwriter had well-publicised love-hate relationship with her native country
Carlo Gébler on his mother Edna O’Brien: Coming to the end
Edna O’Brien, one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers, has died at the age of 93
I wanted to write a book about Irish women’s writing. They told me to include men
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
Hilary Fannin: My pals and I didn’t understand the stern forces that extinguished our youth
I was 17, working in a restaurant, smoking Rothmans and reading Edna O’Brien
Lucy Caldwell: ‘In ways it was a normal childhood...and yet’
Author on how the Troubles affected her life, her writing and her Irish identity
Story of Portugal’s Three Marias a reminder of a darker recent past
Lisbon Letter: Exhibition highlights subjugation of women under Salazar’s dictatorship
Lake people of Lough Derg: ‘I love looking at the water. It makes me calm’
Ireland’s third-biggest lake casts a unique spell over the locals living on or close to it
Wild Atlantic women: Following in their footsteps along the west coast
Gráinne Lyons spent three months learning about women connected to the landscape
House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
An Irish playwright in New York: Lines remain unlearned, curtains unraised, seats unfilled
I’ll write to make the actors cry again – laugh, too. We’ll need a laugh after this
Acts of Desperation: Bracing, poignant and devastatingly accurate
Book review: Megan Nolan’s ‘raw’ debut novel of a young woman’s awakening
John Buckley McQuaid: ‘Ireland’s silence is a comfort zone’
The expat artist’s new album tackles the omertà over his home country’s recent past
Fintan O’Toole: Spiritual terrorism created world of mother and baby homes
There was no ‘society’ separate from the church’s power to inflict damnation
‘Ten of the best books set in Ireland’: Does the Guardian get it right?
In this article the paper says novels by Sally Rooney and Colm Tóibín will transport you here
Dalkey villa with design in every detail for €3.5 million
Former home of writer Ernest Gébler cleverly transformed for relaxed contemporary living
Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of love
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown
‘I am deeply interested in Ireland’s complex past’
‘I have a ritual of making tea, lighting a candle and then I am gone into my fictional world’
Write now: Nine writers share advice on how to get started
Tips for budding authors and poets, from beating writer’s block to finding an agent
Edna O’Brien and Brendan Gleeson sign up for Abbey’s Dear Ireland project
Theatre asks writers to create monologues for 50 performers, to premiere online this month
St Patrick’s Day in Uganda the last hurrah before ‘merry-making’ banned
Kampala Letter: Coronavirus concerns dominate celebration of Irish connections
Don’t judge a book by its coverage
Donald Clarke: BBC’s ‘novels that shaped our world’ list is terrible in a very particular way
What can we do about surly urban teens? A dose of generic muck savagery will sort them
Raised by the Village teaches us we should all be socialists in order to raise teenagers
David McWilliams: What the world’s megacities can teach Dublin
Dubai’s foreign labour record is appalling, but it could teach us a thing or two about urban vision
The Irish Times view on the creative process: No (age) limits
Edna O’Brien, Margaret Atwood show artistic imagination does not abide by aging
Campaigners urge new Luggala owner to keep public access to land
Keep Ireland Open makes complaint to Wicklow Co Council over erection of new fencing at estate
Roger Doyle: Aosdána’s newest Saoi is a champion of Irish composers
Previous saoithe have included Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney and Brian Friel, and Doyle believes that Ireland’s composers are up there with our literary greats
Vast Luggala estate in Wicklow sold at discount to overseas buyer
Home of late Guinness heir Garech Browne fetches less than €28m price tag
Why Irish film-makers and actors can’t do proper sex scenes
Film sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really works
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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