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| Film stills all from "Girl With Green Eyes" - apart from the above one, which is from "Smashing Time" |
I'm a huge fan of Edna O'Brien. She is a giant of Irish literature, and was a very brave writer during the darker times of cultural clampdown in Ireland. In her own country her books were censored and burned, and she was denounced from the pulpit. Is it any wonder that, like Joyce and Beckett before her, she got out of the place?
As she once said in an interview, "Writing is like carrying a foetus." The quote seemed to take on an extra frisson of meaning after the Dáil debates last Tuesday.
So maximum respect, though she has been involved in a right few turkeys over the years, particularly on screen.