“I cannot imagine anyone with as open and tactful an intelligence as Sue Leonard.”
— Man Booker Prize Winner and Ireland’s inaugural Laureate for Irish fiction, Anne Enright, at the launch of An Act of Love.
Audrey Magee simply has to write. It’s as essential to her, as breathing. It’s through writing that she works out what she thinks about the world and explores its many complexities. She conveys and illustrates these…
The second of six children brought up in County Wicklow, Sally was an early reader. “I was always reading,” she says. “I started school aged three. At National School we had to write our news…
I was so saddened to hear of Máire’s death at the weekend. Back in 2003, I was lucky enough to interview her about her memoir, The Same Age as the State. I spent a glorious afternoon…