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Dan O'Brien
Dan O’Brien is a playwright, poet, memoirist, essayist and librettist. His play Newtown, winner of the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Theatre Visions Fund Award, premiered at Geva Theatre in 2024. The Body of an American, O’Brien’s play about the Battle of Mogadishu and the haunting of war reporter Paul Watson, was co-produced off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre bygd Primary Stages and Hartford scen (New York Times Critic’s Pick) after a world premiere at Portland Center Stage. The play was produced in London at the Gate Theatre and at many theaters around the US and UK, including The Wilma Theater and Theater J. The Body of an American received the Horton Foote Prize, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, the PEN Center USA Award, the L. Arnold Weissberger Award and was shortlisted for an Evening Standard Theatre Award in London. More recently his play The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage premiered at Boston Court Pasadena and received the
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Dan O’Brien
Dan O’Brien is Chief Economist at the Institute of International and europeisk Affairs, Ireland’s leading foreign affairs think tank. He is also Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin.
Dan has spent most of his career to date as senior economist and editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, an ledd of The Economist Newspaper Group. Working from London and Geneva over a dozen years, he covered the economics and politics of the European Union and its member states.
Dan has also been economics editor of the Irish Times, where he analysed and commented on a wide range of Irish and European issues and was a columnist and economics analyst for Ireland’s largest media organisation, Independent Newspaper Group.
Other organisations for which he has worked include the European Commission, the United Nations and Forfas, an Irish Government policy unit.
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Dan O'Brien
Books by Dan O'Brien
Fine Meshwork: Philip Roth, Edna O'Brien, and Jewish-Irish Literature. Syracuse University Press, 2019.
Syracuse, 2019
In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as “a pi... more In a 1984 interview with longtime friend Edna O’Brien, Philip Roth describes her writing as “a piece of fine meshwork, a net of perfectly observed sensuous details that enables you to contain all the longing and pain and remorse that surge through the fiction.” The phrase “fine meshwork” can apply not only to O’Brien’s writing, but also to the connective threads that bind her work to others’, including, most illuminatingly, Roth’s.
Since the publication of their first controversial novels in the 1950s and 1960s, Roth and O’Brien have always argued against the isolation of mind from body, autobiography from fiction, life from art, and self from nation. In Fine Meshwork, Dan O’Brien investigates the shared co