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1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Margaret Kelleher

   Compelling and unsettling: The Last Years of Edna O’Brien by her son Carlo Gébler (opens the original)

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   On July 27th, 2024, Edna O’Brien died in London at the age of 93. Over subsequent days, her funeral Mass in Tuamgraney, Co Clare, and burial afterwards on Holy Island, Lough Derg, received widespread media coverage; this newspaper published a four-page special literary supplement on Monday, July 29th. “She was a speaker of truth,” said her funeral celebrant, Fr O’Meara, a “remarkable woman” who “held up a mirror for us in a very narrow time in Ireland”. This memoir, by her older

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2. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Margaret Kelleher

   The five-decade love story of a forgotten Irish literary power couple (opens the original)

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   The name of Padraic Colum may still be familiar to some, as the author of much-loved poems such as A Drover or An Old Woman of the Roads, as a playwright, and a highly successful author of children’s stories. In contrast, the career of his wife Mary Maguire Colum is now largely forgotten in Ireland, but for many decades she was an influential reviewer and critic in the United States, feared for her rapier wit by F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Telling their five-decade love story in m

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