Eimear McBride

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Eimear McBride

Three years at the notorious Drama Centre London helped the author of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing understand how to create a character from the inside out

2 months ago | thegoodwebguide.co.uk | Eimear McBride |Alan Hollinghurst |Pollyanna Wilkinson |Holly Watt

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Jul 29, 2024 | theguardian.com | Anne Enright |Colm Toibin |Eimear McBride |Alex Clark

Anne Enright. Photograph: Patrick Bolger/The ObserverAnne Enright: ‘She was all in, every time’O’Brien blew open the possibilities for Irish fiction, not because of the taboos she broke but because she had broken them as a woman. In 1960, her first novel The Country Girls was burned in the market square of her home town of Scarriff, and every Irish woman who has published since is indebted to the hurt she took on there.

Jul 28, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Eimear McBride

Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on 14 September 2017. It was updated on 28 July 2024 after Edna O’Brien’s agent announced that she died “peacefully” on Saturday 27 July after a long illness. “I wakened quickly and sat up in bed abruptly. It is only when I am anxious that I waken easily and for a minute I did not know why my heart was beating faster than usual. Then I remembered. The old reason.

Jun 11, 2024 | repubblica.it | Eimear McBride