The Country Girls

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The Country Girls

novel by O’Brien

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Edna O’Brien
The Country Girls Trilogy
O’Brien’s popular first novel, The Country Girls (1960), was the first volume of The Country Girls Trilogy. It had as its main characters two Irish girls who leave their strict homes and convent school for the excitement and romantic opportunities of Dublin. O’Brien’s frank treatment of sexuality, particularly women’s…
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O’Brien’s popular first novel, The Country Girls (1960), was the first volume of The Country Girls Trilogy. It had as its main characters two Irish girls who leave their strict homes and convent school for the excitement and romantic opportunities of Dublin. O’Brien’s frank treatment of sexuality, particularly women’s…
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Irish literature
The 1960s and beyond
>The Country Girls, the first novel in a trilogy that helped open up discussion of the role of women and sex in Irish society and of Roman Catholicism’s oppressive force upon women. The novel was banned, and O’Brien left Ireland shortly thereafter. Yet her work…
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>The Country Girls, the first novel in a trilogy that helped open up discussion of the role of women and sex in Irish society and of Roman Catholicism’s oppressive force upon women. The novel was banned, and O’Brien left Ireland shortly thereafter. Yet her work…
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