JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
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Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
A beautifully-crafted documentary from Sinéad O’Shea
Edna O'Brien in London, 1971
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
MATTHEW HAWKINS surveys the upcoming programme of contemporary dance in Glasgow, and picks some highlights
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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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FIONA O’CONNOR treasures the work of Edna O’Brien for the depth of evocation of psychologies, desires and losses among ordinary lives
