Ireland Is A Peculiar Society In The

Amongst Women Concentrated On The Family, And The New Book Concentrates On A Small Community. The Dominant Units In Irish Society Are The Family And The Locality. The Idea Was That The Whole World Would Grow Out From That Small Space.

Nothing Ever Holds Together Unless It Is Mixed With Some Of One's Own Blood

I Used To Take Five Or Six Books Away And Bring Five Or Six Books Back. Nobody Gave Me Direction Or Advice And I Read Much In The Way That A Boy Might Watch Television.

Among Its Many Other Obligations, Fiction Always Has To Be Believable. Life Does Not Have To Suffer Such Constraint, And Much Of What Takes Place Is Believable Only Because It Happens.

My Father Was Very Outwardly Religious.