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Edna O'Brien Books
The Country Girls Trilogy (1987), collected with new epilogue, ISBN 0140109846 , The Country Girls (1960), ISBN 0140018514 , Girl with Green Eyes (1962), first published as The Lonely Girl, ISBN 0140021086 , Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964), ISBN 0140026495 , Casualties of Peace (1966), ISBN 0140028757 , The Love Object (1968), ISBN 0140031049 , A Pagan Place (1970), ISBN 0297000276 , Zee & Co. (1971), ISBN 0297003364 , Night (1972), ISBN 0297995413 , A Scandalous Woman and Other Stories (1974), ISBN 0297767356 , Mother Ireland (1976), ISBN 0297771108 , Johnny I Hardly Knew You (1977), ISBN 0297772848 , Mrs Reinhardt and Other Stories (1978), ISBN 029777476X , Some Irish Loving (1979), translations, ISBN 0297775812 , Returning (1982), short stories, ISBN 0297780522 , A Fanatic Heart (1985), short stories, ISBN 0297786075 , The High Road (1988), ISBN 0297794930 , On the Bone (1989), poetry, ISBN 0906887380 , Lantern Slides (1990), short stories ISBN 0297840193 , Time and Tide (1992), ISBN 0670845523 , House of Splendid Isolation (1994), ISBN 0297814605 , Down by the River (1996), ISBN 0297818066 , James Joyce (1999), biography, ISBN 0297842439 , Wild Decembers (1999), ISBN 0297645765 , In the Forest (2002), ISBN 0297607324 , The Light of Evening (2006), forthcoming
Edna O'Brien Links
Edna O'Brien (1932-)
Site http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eobrien.htm
Edna O'Brien was born in Twamgraney, County Clare. Her family was opposed to anything to do with literature and later she described her small village "enclosed, fervid and bigoted." When O'Brien was a student in Dublin and her mother found a book of Sean O'Casey in her suitcase she wanted to burn it. After finishing primary school O'Brien was educated at the Convent of Mercy in Loughrea (1941-46). In Dublin she worked in a pharmacy, and studied at the Pharmaceutical College at night. During this period she wrote small pieces for the Irish Press. In 1950 she was awarded a licence as pharmacist. Married in the summer of 1954, O'Brien moved with her husband, the Czech/Irish writer Ernest Gébler, and two sons to London. In Ireland she read such writers Tolstoy, Thackeray, F. Scott Fitzgerald. The first book O'Brien ever bought was Introducing James Joyce by T.S. Eliot. She has said that Joyce's Portrait of the Artist made her realize that she wanted literature for the rest of her life.
Fiction - Edna O'Brien
Site http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/eobrien.htm
Edna O'Brien (b. 1936) was born in a rural, Catholic village of about two hundred people in the west of Ireland and grew up on a farm. Educated at local schools and in a convent, she escaped rural life by briefly attending Pharmaceutical College in Dublin. Shortly after her marriage in 1952, she and her husband (Czech-Irish author Ernest Gebler) moved to London; they divorced after twelve years. O'Brien remained in London, where she raised her two sons alone. Since 1986 she has taught creative writing at City College of the City University of New York.
Chat with Edna O'Brien
Site http://www.salon.com/02dec1995/departments/litchat.html
Recently, Irish novelist Edna O'Brien appeared onstage in San Francisco at an event sponsored by City Arts & Lectures, where she read from her new novel-in-progress, "Down By The River." The author of 14 novels and five collections of short stories, O'Brien also talked about who and what drives her to live in exile (in London), to write about war, and to throw herself so exultantly into the rhythm of language.
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925
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