Irish Writers
Edna O'Brien
Her first novel, The Country Girls (1960), told the story of convent schoolgirls breaking away from the strictures of their youth. The book set off a huge scandal - it was prohibited, denounced from pulpits, even burned (in her home village, no less). She went on to write numerous novels and short stories, as well as plays and a recently published memoir titled Country Girl - clearly the firestorm did not stop her from writing. However, O'Brien has never since lived in Ireland.
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