Literature
Walk the Line with Sebastian Barry: ‘There’s no career, there’s just life’
The award-winning author on finding your way, the writer’s space and the importance of simple things
My generation came out of college, if we went to college, in the late 1970s. We looked around us and heard there was a thing called jobs, but possibly not in our country. Most people went to England or America, nearly everyone I was at Trinity with seemed to disappear which was discombobulating in itself, but I decided to try and stay.
I was living in a house on Leeson Street in Dublin. I started ...