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Ireland's Banished Children | Irish America

Many of the thousands of Irish babies adopted in the U.S. in the '40s, '50s, and '60s are reclaiming their roots. Emer Mullins reports.

Lisa McInerney: 'I'm a hoor for attention. It has to be good attention, though'

  Lisa McInerney’s debut The Glorious Heresies won two major prizes and her follow-up The Blood Miracles another, so you might think her biggest concern ahead of the publication of The Rules of Revelation, the third and last of the set, would be making space on the mantelpiece. But no – she might live near Lady Gregory’s estate but she is not the Queen of Coole. “The nerves are at me big-time,” she says, “I’m a real hoor for attention. It has to be good attention, though. You’re not supposed to read your bad reviews but I got one and it gutted me, and that was four years ago and I haven’t recovered. I’m supposed to be a cool writer – I want to be like Mr Banville who just doesn’t care. I still feel like an emerging writer, three books in, still struggling out of the hedge.”

How The Irish Times exposed the Mother and Child scandal 70 years ago today

Letters - Weekly Worker

Letters Problems Dave Vincent admits to having problems grasping the CPGB’s position on some issues - relating mainly to the kind of party that should be established and the nature of socialism (Letters, January 21). He seems to agree that “all Marxists should unite in one party with a programme along the lines suggested by the CPGB” - in other words, a Marxist party. But he adds that the CPGB “frowns upon the setting up of any other party of the working class, which it always derides as being a ‘Labour Party mark two’”. Well, if the left did unite in a single, democratic-centralist Marxist party, I can assure you we would more than welcome that! Our central organisational aim is the achievement of such a party and we will work in any political grouping where we believe that cause can be advanced. Over the years our comrades have participated in Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party, the Socialist Alliance, Respect and Left Unity, to name just a few - and, of co

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