![]() ![]() ![]() John McGahern spent a decade writing Amongst Women, which was published in 1990. His latest novel is The Thrill of it All Diarmaid Ferriter Joseph O'Connor is Frank McCourt chair of creative writing at the University of Limerick. No full understanding of what Ireland has gone through since 2000 is possible without O'Carroll-Kelly's monstrous, unapologetic, unforgettable chronicle of a shitstorm foretold, that is sometimes (but rarely) hard to believe. Indeed, it is hard to imagine Ross ever writing or (indeed reading) a novel, unless it happened to be written by a rugby player. They are a truthful, accurate and meaningful record of the social class that destroyed Ireland, written from the inside. There are occasional rumours that his books are actually works of comic fiction written by a mischievous, very naughty and supertalented Dublin journalist, but any sensible reader knows that this is not so. The greatest book about what contemporary Ireland is like is always the most recent Ross O’Carroll-Kelly work. ![]()
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