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Subseries 6.2
Writings about O'Brien
Box 85: folders 19-31 - Box 89; OP2

Reviews: Short Story Collections
Box Folder Content
85 19 The Love Object, 1968
85 20 A Scandalous Woman, and Other Stories, 1974
85 21 Mrs. Reinhardt, and Other Stories, 1980
85 22 A Fanatic Heart: Selected Short Stories of Edna O'Brien, 1984
85 23 Lantern Slides, 1990
Reviews: Novels
85 24 The Country Girls, 1960
85 25 Casualties of Peace, 1966
85 26 A Pagan Place, 1970
85 27 Johnny I Hardly Knew You, 1978
85 28 The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue, 1989
85 29 The High Road, 1988 [1 of 2]
85 30 The High Road, 1988 [2 of 2]
85 31 Time and Tide, 1992 [1 of 2]
86 1 Time and Tide, 1992 [2 of 2]
86 2 House of Splendid Isolation, 1994 [1 of 2]
86 3 House of Splendid Isolation, 1994 [2 of 2]
86 4 Down By the River, 1996
86 5 Wild Decembers, 1999
Reviews: Drama
86 6 A Pagan Place, 1970
86 7 X,Y, and Zee, 1972
86 8 The Gathering, 1974
86 9 Mrs. Reinhardt, from Her Own Story, 1981
86 10 Virginia, 1981
Reviews: Juvenile
86 11 The Dazzle, 1981
86 12 Tales for the Telling, 1986
Reviews: Nonfiction
86 13 Mother Ireland, 1976
86 14 James Joyce, 1999
Profiles and Interviews
87 1 "The Alchemy of Edna O'Brien," by Caleb Davies, in Telegraph Sunday Magazine, 8 July 1979
87 2 "The Apotheosis of Our St. Edna," by John Boland, in The Irish Times, 10 August 1996
87 3 "The Art of Fiction LXXXII," by Shusha Guppy, in The Paris Review, Summer 1984
87 4 "The Booker Prize Shortlist," in The Sunday Telegraph, 13 September 1992
87 5 "Books of Blood and Cochineal," by Peter Conrad, in The Sunday Review, 11 August 1996
87 6 "Booksellers Report on Christmas Business," in Publisher's Weekly, 21 December 1984
87 7 "Brave New Novels by Leading Irish Authors," by Mary Rose Doorly, in The Irish Herald, May 1997
87 8 "Bravo, Edna," by Helen Meany, in The Irish Times, 24 August 1996
87 9 "Casting a Cold Eye," by James F. Clarity, in The New York Times
87 10 "Catholic Childhood's Long Legacy of Fear," by Frances Welch
87 11 "Ceasefire and Censorship Dominant Themes at Adams Book Promotion," by Maol Muire Tynan, in The Irish Times, 16 September 1994
87 12 "Country Girl," by Seamus Hosey, in RTE Guide, 23 August 1996
87 13 "Country Girls Author Says She is No 'Scarlet Woman,'" by Tom McPhall, in The Examiner, 20 August 1996
87 14 "The Country Girl Goes Home," by Miriam Lord, in Irish Independent, 2 July 1991
87 15 "The Country Girl Revisited," by Susan O'Grady Fox, in Irish America, November 1986
87 16 " Country Girls Gets a Launch," by Edward Cunningham, in The Independent, 8 June 1988 The Independent, 8 June 1988
87 17 "Country Matters," by Nicholas Wroe, in The Guardian, 2 October 1999
87 18 "Dame Edna," by Eileen Battersby, in The Irish Times, 12 September 1992
87 19 "Dame Edna," by Ciaran Carty, in The Tribune Magazine, 18 August 1996
87 20 "Doing the Real Thing," by Jan Moir, in The Guardian, 16 September 1992
87 21 "Double for Commitments," by Stephen O'Brien, in Irish Independent, 7 December 1991
87 22 "Drama of a Literary Duet," by Eileen Battersby, in The Irish Times, 5 August 1996
87 23 "Edna in the Pulpit," in The Irish Post, 4 March 1972
87 24 "Edna O'Brien," by Patricia Boyle Haberstroh
87 25 "Edna O'Brien," by Molly McQuade, in Publisher's Weekly, 18 May 1992
87 26 "Edna O'Brien: A Beautiful, Eccentric Novelist Looks at Her Life"
87 27 "Edna O'Brien, Escritora Que Nos Estaba Destinada: Poniatowska," by Monica Mateos, in La Jornada, 22 March 1998
87 28 "Edna O'Brien in Her Single Bliss," by Mary Kenny, in London Evening Standard, 28 May 1976
87 29 "Edna O'Brien: 'Look, I Have Come Through,'" by Deirdre Purcell, in The Sunday Tribune, 22 July 1984
87 30 "Edna O'Brien: Miles from Melancholy," by Caroline Walsh, in The Irish Times, 11 June 1988
87 31 "Edna O'Brien Talks to David Heycock About Her New Novel, A Pagan Place," by David Heycock, in The Listener, 7 May 1970
87 32 "Edna O'Brien's Fanatic Heart," by Caroline Drewes
87 33 "Edna O'Brien's Hard Edge of Heartbreak," by David Streitfeld, in International Herald Tribune, 31 July 1992
87 34 "Edna O'Brien's Haunting Origins, by Laura Evenson
87 35 "Edna O'Brien's Rituals," by Ann Agranoff, in The New York Times Magazine, 23 April 1989
87 36 "Edna Still Looking for Man of Her Dreams," by Sue Corbett, in Sunday Life, 20 September 1992
87 37 "Edna Weathers Rough Waters," by Una Brankin, in Sunday Press, 4 October 1992
87 38 "Enchanting Edna!," by Barbara McKeon, in The Irish Press, 3 February 1993
87 39 "Encountering Edna the Etherealised Woman," by Cal McCrystal, in The Sunday Times, 9 October 1988
87 40 "Entretien Avec Edna O'Brien," in Le Monde, 13 September 1969
87 41 "Ernest & Edna, Living in Different Pasts," in London Evening Standard, 22 April 1988
87 42 "Ernest and the Girl with the Green Eyes," by Anne Harris, in The Sunday Independent, 7 August 1994
87 43 "El Escritor es como un Ladron o un Buen Cocinero Sin Testigos," by Ana Lilla Rojas Cano, in El Dia, 22 March 1998
87 44 "Finding Company, the Hard Way," by Stuart Wavell, in The Guardian, 25 January 1980
87 45 "For Edna O'Brien, Writing Is a Kind of Illness," by Susan Heller Anderson, in The New York Times, 11 October 1977
87 46 "Frankfurt Spawns a Diaspora," by Denis Staunton
88 1 "Getting Gothic with Edna O'Brien's 'Sister Imelda,'" by Wanda Balzano
88 2 "The Girl Who Wrote The Country Girls"
88 3 "A Great Tradition," by John Banville, in The Sunday Times, 1993
88 4 "Hard Working O'Brien," in London Evening Standard, 27 March 1972
88 5 "A Heavy Fall," by Boyd Tonkin, in New Statesman and Society, 28 August 1992
88 6 "How I Learned to Stop Loving the Wrong Men," by Corinna Honan, in Daily Mail, 7 September 1992
88 7 "How Running Revealed Man's Best 'High,'" by Ulick O'Connor, in The Sunday Times, 12 April 1981
88 8 "Hurricane Edna," by Liam MacGabhann, in This Week In Ireland, 17 October 1969
88 9 "'I Don't Have Time to be a Scarlet Woman,'" by Michael Sheridan
88 10 "I Need an Irish Angel She Purred," by John McEntee, in The Irish Press, 7 June 1988
88 11 "La Imaginacion y el Temor, ingredientes Para Ser Escritor," in La Cronica, 22 March 1998
88 12 "In Defence of Edna, A Great Talent," by Peter Eyre, 21 October 1992
88 13 "In for a Deep End," by Marie Dawson," in The Guardian, 2 October 1988
88 14 "In Heaven with Edna," by Patricia Morison
88 15 "In the Combat Zone of Love," by Alan Levy, in International Herald Tribune, 4 May 1984
88 16 "The Infamous Edna," by Tim Heald, in The Daily Telegraph, 15 October 1986
88 17 "Interview: Edna O'Brien," by Mark Featherstone-Witty, in Palatinate, October 1971
88 18 "Ireland in Her Agony is a Cultural 'Wasteland,'" 9 March 1973
88 19 "Ireland's Wayward Writer, Still Raising Eyebrows," by Leslie Garis, in The New York Times, 23 December 1999
88 20 "The Irrepressible Edna O'Brien," by Sabina Lawlor Clarke, July 1997
88 21 "Kindred Spirits," in Telegraph Weekend Magazine, 24 March 1990
88 22 "Labours of Love and Loss," by Shusha Guppy, in The Observer, 3 June 1990
88 23 "The Last Word," in The Weekend Guardian, 29 August 1992
88 24 "Life, Love and Edna," by Valerie Grove, in The Times, 22 April 1994
88 25 "Life of O'Brien, by Eilenn Battersby, in The Irish Times, 14 October 1999
88 26 "The Life of O'Brien," by Shusha Guppy, in London Portrait, November 1990
88 27 "Lobster, AristoPats, and a Worthy Cause," in The Sunday Times, 24 June 1990
88 28 "A Lot of Leaves to be Desired," by Daniel Johnson, in The Times, 11 July 1992
88 29 "Love's Labours Lost," by Anthony Burgess, in The Daily Telegraph, 9 November 1988
88 30 "Me Jewel and Darlin' Dublin," by Tom Davies, in The Observer, 8 July 1979
88 31 "My Word Edna, How You Can Talk," by Jeannette Kupfermann
88 32 "Myth, Magic and the Gift of the Gab," by Philippa Kennedy, in You, 12 May 1991
88 33 "New Ratings War Should Not be Allowed to Spread," in Television Today, 25 August 1983
88 34 "The Next O'Brien," in London Evening Standard, 24 April 1970
88 35 "O'Brien and the Blessings of Obsession," by Louise Carbines, in The Age, 14 October 1994
88 36 "O'Brien Country," by Christopher Hitchens, in Vanity Fair, March 1997
88 37 "O'Brien Tells of Irish Isolation," by Debra Jopson
88 38 "Old Friends Gather to Fete Late Late," by Vincent Browns, in The Sunday Tribune, 20 September 1992
88 39 "Our Edna-A Song of S.W.3.," by Elgy Gillespie, in The Irish Times, 10 June 1972
88 40 "Out to Lunch," in Sunday Express Magazine, 6 September 1992
88 41 "Owen Inspires Novel Friendship," 11 September 1991
88 42 "Owen the Minister for Edna's Love"
88 43 "Pick of the Year," in The Sunday Times, 24 November 1996
88 44 "Picks & Pans," in People, 11 October 1986
88 45 "The Pleasure and the Pain," by Miriam Gross, in The Observer, 14 April 1985
88 46 "Publishers Pow-wow Launches Millennium Editions," in The Irish Times, 8 June 1988
88 47 "Pyrotechnics, Feuds, and Factions," by Sandra Dawson, in Australian Book Review, April 1970
88 48 "Rambles in Ireland with Edna O'Brien," by Eileen Reilly
88 49 "Ranches of Isolation," by Tom Wihelmus, in The Hudson Review
88 50 "Reading Her Own Work," by P.K. Downey, 29 May 1972
88 51 "Rebel Edna Finally Finds a Failte," by Justine McCarthy, in Irish Independent, 3 February 1993
88 52 "Rich Stories Yet to be Told," in The Tribune Magazine, 5 November 1995
88 53 "A Scandalous Woman," by Joe Jackson, in Hot Press, October 1992
88 54 "A Schooling for Scandal," by Peter Guttridge in The Weekend Review, 12 June 1999
88 55 "70 Movies for the Decades," by Michael Gray, in IE, November 1998
88 56 "Sins and Lovers," by Terry Coleman, in The Guardian, 31 March 1994
88 57 "A Soulful Journey Around Edna," by Madeleine Keane, in Sunday Independent, 7 February 1993
88 58 "Sting a Fan of Edna O'Brien," by Helen Quinn
88 59 "Suitcase Studies," by Keith Waterhouse, in London Evening Standard, 15 August 1991
89 1 "The Sweet One Gets Angry," by Mick Brown, in The Daily Telegraph, 17 April 1995
89 2 "Sweet Prose from Bitter Experience," by Megan Tresidder, in The Sunday Telegraph, 13 September 1992
89 3 "Talking with Edna O'Brien," in Cara, October-December 1970
89 4 "That Wife Mischief," by Terry Keane, in Sunday Independent, 12 June 1988
89 5 "Todos Somos Rehenes del Lugar Donde Provenimos: Edna O'Brien," by Jorge Luis Espinosa, in Uno Mas Uno, 21 March 1998
89 6 "The Trouble with Edna," by Stan Gebler Davies, in London Evening Standard, 19 October 1992
89 7 "Truly, Madly, Deeply," by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, in Vogue, October 1992
89 8 "The Unimportance of Being Ernest," in The Phoenix, 10 May 1985
89 9 "Upstaging the Poet," by Des Hickey, in Sunday Independent, 8 December 1991
89 10 "The Virtuous Rebel," by Ciaran McKeown, in Belfast Newsletter, 13 October 1992
89 11 "West Edna," by John Hall, in The Guardian, 28 October 1972
89 12 "Will Ban on Edna O'Brien's Books be Lifted?"
89 13 "A Writer's Retreat," by Fionnuala McHugh, in Country Homes, November 1992
89 14 Untitled article by Stan Gebler Davies, in Sunday Independent, 18 October 1992
89 15 Untitled Interview
Promotional Material
89 16 Theatre programs
89 17 Promotional material
89 18 Promotional material
89 19 Promotional material
OP2 - August is a Wicked Month poster
OP2 - August is a Wicked Month promotional material
OP2 - Down by the River poster
OP2 - Down by the River poster
OP2 - Girls in Their Married Bliss poster
OP2 - House of Splendid Isolation poster
OP2 - The Irish Times Literature Prizes Shortlist 1999 poster (2)
OP2 - Night poster (2)
OP2 - O'Brien collage
OP2 - Time and Tide poster
OP2 - Time and Tide poster (3)
OP2 - Time and Tide promotional material (3)
OP2 - Virginia poster
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