In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.

But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA

was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.

Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?

When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?

I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA.

Steakknife.

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Each night before you go to bed, my baby, whisper a little prayer for me, my baby.

Yeah. And they'll almost come apart. Today, Today, we ask whether a book.

Today we ask whether a book really does have to be dedicated to the one you love,

as we discuss the art of the literary acknowledgement. And Mary Gateskill shares the novel

she'd never lend. But we start in Ireland, a place steeped in rich literary history. In 2016,

Granta published a collection looking at the very best of contemporary Irish writing. It included

established names like Colm-Tobine and Kevin Barry, and younger voices like Sarah Baum, Stephen Sexton and Sally Rooney.

Since then, we've had the Brexit referendum in the north, and the South of Ireland has legalised same-sex marriage and abortion.

So how have writers responded to these shifting tides?

Well, I'm delighted that two of the most exciting contributors from the

Granta Collection join me now. Belfast-born Lucy Caldwell is the author of three novels, two short-story

collections, and was the editor of Being Various, Faber's anthology of New Irish Short Stories. Her latest

solo collection, Intimacies, charts women's lives as they navigate

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