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20 November 1962: The writer talks to Denis Hart about leaving County Clare for London, debut novel The Country Girls, and her new play

Daniel Wiffen won gold in 800m freestyle 24 hours after Mona McSharry’s bronze in 100m breaststroke

The death of Edna O’Brien at the age of 93 brings an end to the long reign of one of Ireland’s greatest writers, who attracted both controversy and adulation throughout her trailblazing career. Lynn Enright remembers the profound personal impact of her debut novel ‘The Country Girls’ – banned in…

Starting times and groupings for Saturday's third round of the men's Olympic golf tournament in Paris

Edna O’Brien has died at age 93

'Saipan' will focus on the training camp dispute that led to Ireland's captain walking away from the 2002 World Cup squad

Maddison Levi set an Olympic record with her 11th Paris try as Australia booked a semi-final berth with Canada and moved within reach of a second Games gold.

The opening sentence of Girl, Edna O’Brien’s last novel is, I think, unforgettable: “I was a girl once, but not any more...” And from there O’Brien, who died on Saturday, takes the reader into the unimaginable horror of the abduction and rape of the Chibok schoolgirls by the Islamist group,…

The acclaimed author of The Country Girls, which was burned in the market square of her home town, has died aged 93. Here, Irish novelists pay tribute to a titanic figure who liberated their country’s fiction