What many of the titles have in common, apart from their excellence, is an eloquent evocation of place
The list in Saturday’s Irish Times of the top 100 Irish fiction titles of the first quarter of the 21st century is persuasive evidence of the vitality of contemporary Irish literature, of a tradition as healthy at the bud as at the root.
Anna Burns, who wrote Milkman, the first choice of our panel, was living on the breadline before she won the Booker Prize.Camp Shamrock, Lebanon: ‘Look at our own history - we had a fractured island not too long ago’Bobbi Brown: ‘I wasn’t a person anyone would have predicted to be successful... I’m sharing that anything’s possible’
Mike McCormack had been dropped by his London publisher for poor sales and could not find a home for his masterpiece Solar Bones until a small Irish publisher, Tramp Press, took a chance on it.have in common, apart from their excellence, is an eloquent evocation of place, be it Belfast, Leitrim or Mayo, a reckoning with the past and a concern with how to live well, the individual conscience sometimes at odds with community or family.
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