Irish Writer Edna O’Brien interview, 1976

[@matthewmcmahon6032]

Thanks Edna for sharing your intellect and your eloquent writing with us. Fell in love with you from my first reading fifty years ago. Totally relatable We are so proud of you

[@stephenvincent4989]

Wow! Once read and especially heard never forgotten. She was a breath of delightful fresh air with the morale courage to confront all the trials and tribulations of a staunchly Catholic and conservative Ireland. Her and one my favourite actors Richard Harris showed fearlessness in their outspokenness which led many to find that for those objectors the truth hurts.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

The very great Edna O’Brien, a powerful writer and human being, she was total class plus she adored the works of that other great Irishman Samuel Beckett, may Edna O’Brien dear and kind soul rest in eternal peace in heaven

[@mrandmrssmith5069]

She was a beautiful woman amazing back in the day her book the country girl was great r I p

[@PatTigue]

She a total Brit ashamed to be from same country as her ,never slept n Belfast or Derry same as Harvey MC dowell or slippy Kenny the failed teacher but know all the.problems ,if they read baklymurphy murders ,priest shot 22 times lying in field

[@nickmulcahy9199]

She well handled the uptight guardian of The Establishment -- the guy (McJerk) wanted to sink her ship and failed.

[@genevievedolan1288]

She is not being arrogant at all, but confident. She knows herself and what she will do as a writer, which is be honest about her experience and devote herself to her craft.

[@jane_7193]

She was a great writer, I loved her books.

[@edmundcoyle364]

Great interview, perhaps stating views already that we were aware of.

[@brianquigley1940]

"Out lady blushes when a woman does such an indecent thing"... said to an 11 year old girl! When I was a kid (7?), the nun teacher told the class that there was a rumour going around that kids were spitting out the hold communion, but she said, if you do, it will bleed because it is the body of Jesus Christ. Of course, at the next holy communion, I kept the wafer in my mouth until the end of mass. By this time, it had dissolved into a mushy liquid that was just a gob of spit by the time I spitted it onto the ground. Not a drop of blood in sight! There's a moral in this story somewhere...

[@michaelstaunton1632]

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[@brianquigley1940]

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[@onlinemusiclessonsadamphil4677]

Such a brilliant person. I feel the Scottish psych is very similar especially in certain areas both metaphorically and geographically

[@secondhorizon]

a tribute

[@alidabaxter5849]

To each question or accusation of his she gave a quiet, sometimes amused response and I don't even realise she was wiping the floor with him.

[@JJONNYREPP]

Irish Writer Edna O’Brien interview, 1976 1148am 29.7.24 the repugnant society he described is a tradition the world over. but there you go, she was probably telling him as it was.... or still is? there's a joke in that re: crossing one's legs, as dished out by the likes of bernard manning and george roper etc etc etc.... anyhow; she must be carla lane's go to fount of inspiration.

[@justthetruth1]

Cringe interview, the prick really did his best to knock her. RIP Edna.

[@outoforbit00]

She had a soft spoken arrogance that most people missed, or bearly noticed.

[@charleslangrishl9124]

. Haughey was arrogant. McQuaid was arrogant. Do you put her in the same space as those awful men

[@gerardodwyer5908]

Tom McGurk's slow boil transition from D4 West Brit to RTÉ's "Green Nationalist" rugby pundit is the more interesting story here.

[@edmundcoyle364]

So you dont like Mr McGurk?

[@shaneheff5244]

Edna was vastly more interesting than McGurk.

[@People.United]

#DEDNA

[@GK-qt7qg]

How condescending and derogatory she was.

[@ALavin-en1kr]

I have mixed feelings about her. She was a good writer and she obviously did not want to live according to the mores of the time. People were finding themselves after so many centuries of oppression; thinking about who they were; who they were supposed to be and what was expected of them. I know many who lived settled conformist lives and were very happy. She appears to have been a good mother and she deserves total credit for that.

[@shaneheff5244]

She was anything but. Just rejecting the horrible oppression of the Catholic church at the time which has since diminished thankfully.

[@barbarajones9385]

He, the interviewer, was indeed condescending.

[@TheSomethingWheel]

Would love to hear what you think she was condescending and derogatory towards. I wonder how worthy of unwavering blind faith it might be.