In his cheerfully chilly house in a small Irish village in Co Sligo, Kevin Barry is explaining why his latest novel took so long to write. Samuel Beckett is glaring at us from a large framed photograph hanging above the fireplace: even that most costive of writers might have thought a gestation period of 25 years for one book is going too far.
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It is about three-quarters of an hour into my interview with Father Ted co-creator Arthur Mathews when the conversation ventures into uncomfortable territory. A certain subject has been looming on the horizon from the off and it explains why, early on, he seems so ill at ease.