12 September 2024, The Tablet

Out of shame, into the light


Ireland’s literary scene 2024

Out of shame, into the light

Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People
photo: Element Pictures/BBC/Hulu Originals

 

Contemporary Irish fiction has become explosively popular, and its authors are feeding, in part, on the decline of the Catholic Church

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