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Radio 3,8 mins
Julia O’Faolain discusses life growing up in the wake of the Irish Civil War
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Matthew Sweet talks to the Booker nominated novelist Julia O'Faolain about her memoir of growing up with her writer parents, Eileen and Sean, in the period after Ireland's Civil War when her father was Director of Publicity for the IRA and a dissident challenging Church and State. Photo credit: Johnny Ring.
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