An Irishman at Oxford: It was an education in being an outsider. I felt alienated from the very start
Irishman in Singapore: I wondered if I was foolish to emigrate in my 50s. But I feel more alive than ever
‘Rome is a fantastic city to live in, but it’s very complicated. It’s a mess of a place. Madrid is clean. Everything works’
For Marianne Faithfull, Ireland was where one of the most misunderstood women in music could make sense of her life