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Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
A beautifully-crafted documentary from Sinéad O’Shea
Edna O'Brien in London, 1971
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Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
Directed by Sinéad O’Shea
ONE of Ireland’s most important 20th-century novelists and a woman of verve, intelligence and wit, Edna O’Brien is memorialised fittingly in Sinead O’Shea’s beautifully crafted documentary.
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