NEW YORK — Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel “The Country Girls” before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and ...
The Society of Irish Women held their dinner Monday at the Radisson at Lackawanna Station hotel in downtown Scranton. The mistress of ceremonies was past president and founding member Laurie Cadden.
Edna O’Brien, a groundbreaking Irish writer whose novels portrayed young women struggling for happiness and freedom in a male-dominated world, died July 27 at 93. Her publisher Faber and the literary ...