As part of the Listowel Writers’ Week festival, I had chance to catch up with the multi-talented Kevin Barry…

 

Kevin Barry

Tell us about your first novel, ‘City Of Bohane’.

Bohane is a vicious and evil and murderous little city somewhere on the western seaboard of Ireland, and it’s full of the most heinous rogues and villains and ne’er-do-wells, and I adore them all. It’s the story of how things are out in Bohane in the middle of the 21st century and essentially, it’s all about the language – it’s a projection of what the street-talk might sound like in such a city forty years from now. I had deranged and criminal levels of fun writing it…

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