Watch: Irish writer Edna O'Brien laid to rest on Holy Island on Lough Derg

Edna O’Brien, Irish novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, poet and playwright, died aged 93 last month after a long illness.

Her “revolutionary intervention in Irish fiction” has been remembered during her funeral mass.

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