For showing up the hypocrisies and smug pieties of her native country, she was vilified
paid since the announcement over the weekend of her death at the age of 93, one recurs the most and seems to distil her achievements best: fearless .
For the Irish establishment of the mid-20th century, such defiance, especially from a young female artist, was an outrage and an affront to both Church and State. O’Brien’s first novel, The Country Girls, which dared to explore female sexual desire with intelligence and humour through the story of two young women as they move from girlhood in rural Co Clare to adulthood in Dublin, was banned from bookshops and denounced from pulpits. The same fate would befall subsequent novels.
‘He just said, I’m so proud of you’: Jarly Óg Burns relishes father-son moment as Armagh get perfect endingAll of this means O’Brien’s place is assured in the story of this country’s long struggle against insularity, illiberalism and misogyny. It would be wrong, however, to see her purely as an agent of social change. She was first and foremost an artist, committed to her writing, wherever it might take her, and no matter how difficult or awkward the subject.
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