Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Emerging from rural Ireland, Edna O’Brien broke multiple taboos with her sexually provocative literature and equally a | dG1fYkVFcnFwZmIzSE0

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00:00Whatever wise man said, there's no sense being Irish if you don't know the world will break

00:06your heart, might have been thinking of the author, then von Limmel, Edna O'Brien.

00:12Unquestionably, one of the best thought of writers in the English language today.

00:16It didn't come easy.

00:17You probably have a unique distinction in that all your books are bad.

00:21I'm not always sensitive about it because all the censors and bishops and judges, they're

00:25all men.

00:26The good times are middling, the bad times are bad.

00:30But not her fault, nothing to do with her adolescent vanity.

00:36She became quite a famous party giver, if you like, in London.

00:41Everybody who was anybody went to Edna's parties.

00:43I knew it was transitory.

00:45We were all en route, heading for other places, orbiting up, up.

00:54Her love of writing was absolute.

00:55And I remember lying in bed and you'd hear that ticka-ticka-ticka-ticka-ting.

01:00Her sentences are so fleet.

01:02There was smoke rising from the blue mountains in the distance.

01:05There's a kind of magic to them.

01:12Many people have thought I'm a Fliberty Gibbett, or I met this person, or I met that person.

01:17That isn't really what I am.

01:22I'm something else.