Emma Donoghue, Colum McCann, Roddy Doyle, John Banville, Anne Enright, Edna O’Brien, Colm TóibÃn, 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 […]