Sebastian Barry, Ireland’s Laureate for Fiction, has created many homes in his novels ranging from Annie Dunne’s home, to the mental hospital in The Secret Scripture to the battlefields in Days Without End to the Dublin tenements in A Long Long Way.
He will discuss these fictional dwellings and their relationships to real places, and read relevant passages from the novels.
In conversation with Catriona Crowe, Curator of First Thought Talks.
