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The Season of Lost Souls
I’M NOT THE FIRST to say it, nor will I be the last: Irish writers are kicking arse, forging narratives for our fraught and fevered moment, spinning tensions between English and their Indigenous tongue into gold. Consider the gems from this past decade alone: Sally Rooney’s series of millennial touchstones, crowned, of course, by her 2018 bestseller Normal People; the edgy stories of Colin Barrett; Claire Keegan’s delicate prose poems; and the dystopias, both political and personal, constructed by the Pauls, Lynch and Murray. Is there some secret ingredient in the soda bread? I’ll have what they’re having.
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