BLUE ROAD: THE EDNA O’BRIEN STORY
by Sinéad O’Shea
Bookings are open for the 69th Edition Irish Gala: Featuring an insightful and affecting interview with Edna from just before her passing earlier this year, the film richly honours her legacy, as well as her profound passion and dedication to art.
Ireland | 2024 | 100 min
Sunday 10 | Everyman Theatre | 17:00
With the release of her revolutionary 1960 novel ‘The Country Girls’, Edna O’Brien sealed her fate as both a revered novelist and a feminist icon. Blue Road explores her life as a literary sensation and social radical
Sinéad O’Shea’s thoughtful documentary weaves effectively O’Brien’s professional and personal triumphs and difficulties, in a portrait of an iconoclast who stood in resistance to the Irish conservative doctrine of the mid-20th century.
Featuring an insightful and affecting interview with Edna from just before her passing earlier this year, the film richly honours her legacy, as well as her profound passion and dedication to art.
Director Sinéad O’Shea will be in attendance.
Courtesy of Break Out Pictures
