‘I don’t know what modern Ireland is yet. I’m suspicious about the new sacred cows’ – The Irish Times
Joseph O’Connor can remember the moment when he decided to become a writer. “If I thought about it carefully enough, I could probably come up with the week, certainly the month,” he says. “When I was 17, my first girlfriend gave me a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. She had very cool parents … Read more