Tim O’Brien
Novelist Enda O’Brien is to be buried on Holy Island on Lough Derg, her family has said.
Ms O’Brien who was originally from the Tuamgraney area near Scarriff in Co Clare rose to fame when she wrote the Country Girls, a trilogy the first book of which was published in 1960. The trilogy was subsequently banned by the censor.
Speaking on the RTÉ programme Drivetime, Ms O’Brien’s nephew Michael Blake said the writer wanted to return to Ireland for “her final resting place”.
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He said she wished for a “service in the Church in Tuamgraney where she was christened and had communion”.
She is “going to be buried on Holy Island”, he said.
Funeral arrangements for the writer are still being formulated Mr Blake said.
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