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THE COUNTRY GIRL, Edna O’Brien one of Ireland’s greatest writers will be buried on Holy Island. Edna died on Saturday peacefully at the age of ninety-three following a long illness. Her family have confirmed that her wishes to return to Tuamgraney for her funeral and onto Holy Island to be buried will be honoured. She had
lived in London since 1958. She has been credited with revolutionising Irish literature. President Michael D. Higgins said, “Edna was a fearless teller of truths, a superb writer possessed of the moral courage to confront Irish society with realities long ignored and suppressed”. Her nephew Michael Blake said Edna was “one of the bravest women” he ever knew
and noted, she was “brave when it was hard to be brave” and “what needed to be said, she said it, that’s the way to live”. One of her last pieces of writing was putting pen to paper on a speech which was read aloud at the renaming of the Scariff library in her honour, this recognition in her local library was a source of great delight to Edna.
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