Emma Donoghue, Colum McCann, Roddy Doyle, John Banville, Anne Enright, Edna O’Brien, Colm Tóibín, Nuala O’Faolain – what do all these successful authors have in common, besides the fact that they are (or were, in the late O’Faolain’s case) Irish writers of the contemporary era? Having read them all at one point or another, I […]
