Eimear McBride: ‘When my brother died, it was not only losing him but losing all the illusions that you were going to be safe’
The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland: A Reader. Harrowing histories that cohere under the north star of liberation
Books in brief: Cádiz: The Story of Europe’s Oldest City; It Comes From the River; and Web of Betrayal: Murder in Ireland’s Brutal Gangland
Author Rachel Donohue: ‘I needed to write to tell my children something about what I thought of the world’
Fiachna Ó Braonáin of Hothouse Flowers: ‘I was quite disappointed by Bono. I don’t think Sinéad O’Connor would have done it’