The Irish Times on Edna O’Brien funeral/burial at Tuamgraney Co Clare Stephen Rea attended 10th Aug скачать в хорошем качестве

The Irish Times on Edna O’Brien funeral/burial at Tuamgraney Co Clare Stephen Rea attended 10th Aug

The Irish Times 📰 video Edna O’Brien’s funeral mass RIP St Joseph's Church Tuamgraney Co Clare (burial on Holy Island Inis Cealtra, transfer by boat) 10-Aug-2024 Stephen Rea 🥺 attended and read from ‘The Book of Wisdom’ 👉    • Stephen Rea 🥰 reads from The Book of Wisdo...   President of Ireland Michael D Higgins and wife Sabina attended the funeral mass. RTE News video 👉    • RTE TV News Edna O’Brien’s funeral mass an...   Irish Independent video 👉    • Irish Independent Edna O’Brien funeral/bur...   Edna O’Brien is recognised as one of ‘the greatest Irish writers of the 20th century’ (Dwight Garner, New York Times) and “the most gifted woman now writing in English” (Philip Roth). She was best known for her portrayal of women’s lives against repressive expectations in Irish society. Her first novel, The Country Girls, publ. in 1960 and part of a trilogy that was banned in Ireland for their references to sex and social issues; O’Brien, had lived in London since 1958, described an outraged response to her books from people in Ireland, in contrast to their international success. Described as ”a speaker of truth” with “something feisty in her” during her funeral mass, chief celebrant Fr Donagh O’Meara told how the writer “held up a mirror for us in a very narrow time in Ireland”. “We didn’t thank her for it. Like a lot of prophetesses of the past, we undermined her, we isolated her and rejected her message and she must have deeply felt that,” said Fr O’Meara. He added that it must have been difficult to “stand out” like she did, for bringing important issues to light. ”When you stand out at any moment, at any time, you find yourself isolated quite quickly. And we did that. And that is to our shame as a society and as a church. That is to our shame.” Her latest novel, Girl, has been described as ‘a masterclass of precision and mercilessness’ (Alex Clark, The Guardian), ‘impeccably written and indelible’ (Catherine Taylor FT), and ‘hypnotic, lyrical, and pulsating with dark energy… a masterful study of human evil’ (Christina Patterson Sunday Times). Edna O’Brien’s awards: 1962: Kingsley Amis Award 1970: Yorkshire Post Book Award (Book of the Year) for A Pagan Place* 1990: Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) for Lantern Slides 1991: Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy) for Girl with Green Eyes 1993: Writers’ Guild Award (Best Fiction) for Time and Tide 1995: European Prize for Literature (European Association for the Arts) for House of Splendid Isolation 2001: Irish PEN Award 2006: Ulysses Medal (University College Dublin) 2009: Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in Irish Literature 2010: Shortlisted for Irish Book of the Decade (Irish Book Awards) for In the Forest 2011: Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Saints and Sinners 2012: Irish Book Awards (Irish Non-Fiction Book), Country Girl 2018: PEN/Nabokov Award For Achievement In International Literature 2021: Commandeur de French Ordre des Arts et de Lettres. The honour dates back to 1957, and is intended to reward people who have “distinguished themselves by their creations in the artistic or literary field”. She was also the first non-French recipient of the Prix Femina special in 2019. excerpts from her memoir ‘Country Girl: A Memoir’ (publisher: Little Brown): Edna O’Brien returned to Ireland to build a house in which she hopes to avail of the “peace that passeth understanding,” only to find that even the best laid plans can go awry. Donegal It was to Donegal, the most northwestern tip of Ireland, that in the 1990s I headed, in order to build a house. The very placenames so rough and musical, the country dotted with lakes and hemmed in by the mountains of Errigal, Muckish, Blue Stack, Doonish West, and Snaght. Stephen Rea and his wife, Dolours, were the ones who led me there, Stephen in his wry Belfast way saying, “It’s the best of the north and the best of the south without the fuck-up of either.” In this he was gloriously mistaken. On that same balcony, Stephen Rea and actor Marie Mullen [Sean McGinley’s wife] read from Yeats and Joyce for a program I was preparing for the BBC. One sunny Sunday, Stephen rounded up some gifted musicians, among them Neil Martin, who played on the cello his song cycle of the Oileán na Marbh, the Island of the Dead. It was music that he had written for poems by Cathal Ó Searcaigh, in which a mother of one of the many unbaptized children speaks of her sorrows and rage at the Catholic Church, which would not allow such children to lie in Christian grounds. In one of the accidents of history, some soldiers who had been torpedoed by German U-boats during the Second World War were washed in by the tide on that Donegal coast and were buried next to the children in unmarked graves. The loneliness of the music, coupled with the loneliness of the place and the sob of the sea, gave me the feeling that all was right and that I had settled in, yet the certainty could be undone by a night of storm when I was alone. #stephenreaforever #ednaobrien #stephenrea 💔