Kate O'Brien

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Standard Name: O'Brien, Kate
Birth Name: Kate O'Brien
Married Name: Kate Renier
KOB , twentieth-century Irish writer, was successively a journalist, playwright, novelist, essayist, travel writer, and biographer. She was, she said, influenced by the singing voice and by dance music. Masefield said, Don't despise dance music; it is the music hearts break to.
Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble.
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Her fiction often focuses on an Irish female protagonist's search for love and freedom. She shows such a quest as generally unsuccessful: love does not prove lasting, and spiritual and physical freedom often turn out to be mutually incompatible.
Black-and-white photo of Kate O'brien, 1926. Standing and looking intently at the camera, she is wearing a sleeveless plaid blouse with a tie at the neck and has her hair cropped short.
Black and white photograph of Kate O'Brien, sitting in an upholstered chair, with her sister Nancy O'Brien perched on its arm beside her. Both look straight at the camera. Kate is wearing a long, dark skirt and a V-necked sweater with a pattern of horizontal stripes. She has short, dark, straight hair and is holding a paper in her lap.

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Cultural formation Cecil Frances Alexander
A century later, the writer Kate O'Brien told a probably apocryphal story about the Alexander family's ecumenism. The Viceroy of Ireland, she says, wanted to have a strictly private and apparently casual word in confidence...

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