“Edna sold her house for £400,000 and a couple of years later it was worth £5 million. Now it’s nearly all oligarchs living there.”
Who was Edna O’Brien? Was she the fearless slayer of convention as depicted by the tributes after she died or was she the frivolous, insubstantial figure long depicted in Ireland? A new documentary reveals a compelling vulnerable genius, whose courage was not a hollow statement but one that was not without fear, loneliness and misery. In this podcast with Dion Fanning, Sinead O’Shea talks about making the documentary.
