# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Due to demand, for all those who missed the screening of Blue Road at Éigse Michael Hartnett festival we are doing another screening!
Filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea (Pray for our Sinners) brings us author, playwright and socialite Edna O’Brien, as she reflects upon her life and career with astounding candidacy. Defying Ireland’s patriarchal, religious constraints with her sexually frank 1960 debut novel, The Country Girls, she became a literary
sensation. Vilified in Ireland and escaping an abusive husband, O’Brien was empowered and prolific, controversial and sexually open, a taboo-breaking powerhouse who made a fortune and lost one.
Completed shortly before her death last year, Blue Road features extracts from O’Brien’s 
journals (read by Jessie Buckley); contributions from, among others, Gabriel Byrne and Anne Enright; and a remarkable final interview with Edna, aged 93, as she reflects with dignity and candour on her extraordinary life.

Festivals:
Cork International Film Festival 2024
Toronto International Film Festival 2024

Awards
Winner – Best New Irish Feature, Cork International Film Festival 2024

Quotes:
“All in all, this portrayal of one woman’s life, both public and private but all from a literary 
standpoint, is intimate, heartfelt, insightful and rewarding.”
-Aoife Fealy, Film Ireland Magazine

"★★★★ The film speaks to Walter Mosley, Anne Enright and Andrew O’Hagan who talk 
insightfully about her work, and perhaps most touchingly of all with her sons Carlo and Sasha Gébler. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable and engaging study."
-Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“Blending evocative archival footage, audio and new talking-head interviews, director O’Shea collages together an accessible look at a life seemingly lived to the full."
-Catherine Bray, Variety
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/limerick/blue-road-the-edna-obrien-story/200029475920153
- **Event Categories**: festivals, entertainment, art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Limerick
- **state**: LK
- **country**: Ireland
- **location**: Desmond Complex,  Gortboy, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, Newcastle West, Ireland
- **lat**: 52.45467
- **long**: -9.04919
- **full address**: Desmond Complex,  Gortboy, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, Newcastle West, Ireland, 3 Gortboy Court, Limerick, County Limerick, V42 FC95, Ireland

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Newcastle West Film Club (https://allevents.in/org/newcastle-west-film-club/20509356)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 23 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Desmond Complex,  Gortboy, Newcastle West, Co. Limerick, Newcastle West, Ireland, 3 Gortboy Court, Limerick, County Limerick, V42 FC95, Ireland
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Newcastle West Film Club
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** festivals, entertainment, art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story  ?
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