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Obituary: Edna O'Brien, the controversial Irish novelist
BBC via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 days agoIt laid bare an Ireland where young girls could be spirited, sexual beings. O'Brien said the book...
Irish writer Edna O'Brien dies aged 93
BBC via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 days agoShe had lived in London for many years. Her first and perhaps most well-know novel The County Girls tell the story of two girls from rural Ireland...
Drunk hit-and-run driver jailed for killing pedestrian
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News Singapore· 1 day agoSalazar, of Chadwell Heath, east London, was also disqualified from driving for 18 years. Mr Kernan...
'Fearless' Irish author Edna O'Brien dies aged 93
BBC via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 days agoShe published her first novel The ...Girls in 1960. The ground-breaking account of two female friends and the portrayal of female sexuality scandalised ...
Edna O’Brien Dies: Author Who Gave Voice To Irish Women Was 93
Deadline via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 days agoEdna O’Brien, whose books were initially banned in Ireland but gained international acclaim, died...
Irish writer Edna O’Brien, who ‘shattered silences’ about women’s lives, dies at 93
France 24 via Yahoo Style Singapore· 4 days agoThe writer Edna O’Brien, whose more than 60-year career included the 1960 novel “The Country Girls”...
Omagh bomb inquiry first hearing begins
BBC via Yahoo News Singapore· 2 days agoThe attack was mounted from the Republic of Ireland and the Irish government has promised to assist the inquiry. However, it has rebuffed a call for a...
Sinéad O’Connor’s cause of death revealed – one year after her death
Euronews via Yahoo News Singapore· 3 days agoO’Connor’s death drew an outpouring of tributes, with Ireland’s taoiseach at the time, Leo Varadkar,...
Irish museum pulls Sinéad O’Connor waxwork after just one day due to backlash
CNN via Yahoo News Singapore· 6 days agoAn Irish museum will withdraw a waxwork of singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor just one day after...
Groundbreaking Irish writer Edna O'Brien dead at 93
AFP News via Yahoo News Singapore· 4 days agoTributes poured in on Sunday for Edna O'Brien, the radical Irish writer whose groundbreaking first novel "The Country Girls" was burned and banned in her...
