Plus: Dave Grohl’s Kerry drive in 1994; rhododendron set for ban; and some interesting local government ethics declarations
As Edna O’Brien was laid to rest, the world marvelled at a career that began with the scandalous novel The Country Girls being set ablaze by the censorious residents of her Co Clare homeplace. “They burned her book,” the Economist’s obituary opened bluntly. “The book would be banned and burned but Edna O’Brien would never be silenced,” Taoiseach Simon Harris said. News agency articles featuring the claim were published from Minneapolis to Malaysia.
‘I thought Belfast looked very like rougher areas in the south of LA’: How international tourists see Ireland A local of that parish, University College Cork history professor Tomás Mac Conmara, said the subject has “come up quite often” in conversation. “In relation to the alleged burning, I did note that almost all the people I spoke with, and who experienced that period locally, denied any public burning of Edna’s book,” he says.
There’s always an Irish angle. When Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl sought to escape from the spotlight in the wake of singer Kurt Cobain’s suicide in 1994, he took to the Ring of Kerry. Dunne confirms that he saw a “look of shock on the guy’s face” in the passenger seat as the drummer recognised the shirt. “The next thing, the car just tore off away,” he says.
Gardeners are still allowed to buy and plant the invasive species as long as they don’t further its mission of taking over delicate wild locations. But not for long.
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