Former monastic island on the western, Co Clare shore of the lake is still used as a graveyard
Edna O’Brien’s nephew Michael Blake said the writer wanted to return to Ireland for “her final resting place”. Photograph: Alan BetsonMs O’Brien who was originally from the Tuamgraney area near Scarriff in Co Clare rose to fame when she wrote the Country Girls, a trilogy the first book of which was published in 1960. The trilogy was subsequently banned by the censor.
Speaking on the RTÉ programme Drivetime, Ms O’Brien’s nephew Michael Blake said the writer wanted to return to Ireland for “her final resting place”.Anne Enright on Edna O’Brien: She never left Ireland, yet couldn’t live here either ‘It wasn’t a home – it killed them’: The young couple killed in an apartment fire and the safety defects that remainShe is “going to be buried on Holy Island”, he said.
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