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Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
A beautifully-crafted documentary from Sinéad O’Shea
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CHRISTOPHE DOMEC relishes a dizzyingly precise fiction that relays the problem of reporting the truth
DAVID NICHOLSON applauds the revival of a joyous production that deals with choirs, competitions and communism
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MARY DAVIS welcomes a remarkable documentary about the general strike — politically spot on, and featuring accounts from the strikers themselves — that is available for screenings
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review The Stranger, Undertone, and Outcome
Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
Directed by Sinéad O’Shea
ONE of Ireland’s most important 20th-century novelists and a woman of verve, intelligence and wit, Edna O’Brien is memorialised fittingly in Sinead O’Shea’s beautifully crafted documentary.
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