Irish Literature

A Gratuitous Assault

The ignorance behind The New Yorker’s attack on Edna O’Brien

Irish Literature

Girl Trouble

Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls was published in London in 1960 and almost immediately banned in Ireland. It has never since been out of print,…

Irish Literature

Not telling

Edna O’Brien’s memoir refuses to satisfy our curiosity or submit to the demands for interpretation. She has fought others’ desire for control from childhood, and…