‘Multicultural is a handy word but I wrote about one culture, Dublin culture’Estelle Birdy, the debut author of Ravelling, on writing about imperfect heroes – five lads from Dublin’s LibertiesBy Martin Doyle
Barbara Kingsolver: ‘The first time I set foot in Ireland I felt so at home. Something about the language, the culture’
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