We are delighted to be showing Blue Road, the Edna O'Brien Story for International Women's Day, 7pm, Sun 8th March in Bandon Town Hall.
The documentary by Sinéad O'Shea, has won several prestigious awards. Buy your ticket on Powertik €15 (€12 concessions) which includes refreshments.
All funds are going to Gaza Go Bragh. The night is organised by Bandon for Gaza with Creative Bandon.
In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote The Country Girls, the first of a sexually-frank trilogy of novels. Though the books were banned in Ireland, O’Brien became an international literary sensation, gaining fame and notoriety through her marriage and acrimonious divorce from Ernest Gebler; publications in the New Yorker and the creation of screenplays for British and US cinema.
Edna O'Brien lived in London with her two sons where she hosted star-studded parties and conducted numerous love affairs. Her later work was inspired, at times controversially, by real life events.
This documentary portrait, completed shortly before her death last year, features extracts from her journals (read with verve by Jessie Buckley), contributions from Gabriel Byrne, Anne Enright and other luminaries, and a remarkable final interview with Edna, now aged 93 as she reflects with dignity and candour on her extraordinary life.
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