FIONNUALA ON EDNA O’BRIEN

Finn McRedmond

IRISH TIMES columnist Finn (Fionnuala) McRedmond wisely decided to choose the New Statesman rather than her weekly Irish platform for a treatise on Edna O’Brien that contained the usual Punch cartoon images to describe Ireland in the 1960s as “a country fully captured by the papacy”. One Nation Tory Fionnuala reminded British liberals of the… Read more »