Edna O’Brien’s Real Feminine Mystique

Edna O’Brien’s Real Feminine Mystique

A new film about the famous Irish writer captures her feminine energy and brilliance and, perhaps unintentionally, shows how such qualities are missed by modern feminism.

Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story

The work of late Edna O’ Brien has not enjoyed the same level of longevity as that of other other Irish writers. This is something Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story attempts to rectify. O’Brien’s books, particularly The Country Girls, depicted a vision of Irish women that contrasted to the nymphettes that dotted James Joyce’s works. O’Brien contributed to the documentary, although – she was a nonagenarian at the time of production – many of the…