Sebastian Barry Carries the Irish Torch

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🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Have you ever noticed that when it comes to great writers, Ireland seems to have had more than its fair share? Maybe it’s the difficult history, or the never ending pride for their beautiful island, but Ireland seems to be a country rife with storytellers. This week we have an Irish writer who has been nominated for the Booker Prize more than once…Sebastian Barry! His latest, Old God’s Time, is a lyrical and sprawling tale of Ireland and one man’s desperate struggle to make peace with the past. Pull up a chair by the fire and talk literature with a truly great Irish author, you will be glad you did. Books mentioned in this week's episode: Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry Days Without End by Sebastian Barry A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry The Temporary Gentleman by Sebastian Barry The Poems of Catallus by Catallus The Odyssey by Homer The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Nostromo by Joseph Conrad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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