The reposal for acclaimed Irish writer Edna O'Brien has taken place in Co Clare.
President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina were among the mourners.
President Higgins spent time meeting Edna O'Brien’s two sons Carlo Gebler and Marcus Gebler and their families.
She was predeceased by her brother John, sisters Patricia and Eileen and her husband Ernest Gebler.
Actor Stephen Rea was among the other people who were in attendance, while U2 frontman Bono and his wife Ali Hewson sent a wreath.
The author of The Country Girls trilogy and more than 30 other works spent most of her life in London, where she died peacefully on 27 July.
The remains of Ms O'Brien are reposing at St Joseph's Church in Tuamgraney.
Her funeral mass will take place tomorrow morning with burial afterwards in Holy Island.
Her family said she had expressed her wish to return to her home parish in east Clare and the church where she was baptised for her funeral service.
Books of condolence for Ms O’Brien are open online and also at Clare County Council headquarters in Ennis, as well as the public library in Scariff which was formally named the "Edna O’Brien Library" in May of this year.
There will be coverage of the funeral of Edna O'Brien from Tuamgraney, Co Clare, from 11am tomorrow morning on the RTÉ News Channel.
