Through deeply personal essays that reflect on their own experience, research and art, some of the best-known Irish writers on both sides of the Atlantic commemorate the House’s anniversary by examining what has changed, and what has not, in Irish and Irish-American culture, art, identity, and politics since 1993.

In this essay, the author reflects upon the ways in which writing has influenced her scholarship, and the ways in which scholarship has inspired her fiction.

featured in Being New York, Being Irish

Irish Academic Press, 2018

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