Book review: Blindboy’s latest short stories are often brilliant, but not for the faint of heart

Not content with fronting a weekly podcast with a massive listenership, and serving as a kind of national conscience, Limerick man David Chambers, better known by his pseudonym Blindboy Boatclub, also somehow finds the time to write the kind of fiction that burrows underneath the skin.

Topographia Hibernica, named after a generally unflattering 12th-century account of this nation’s land and people by Norman scholar Gerald of Wales, is Blindboy’s third collection of short stories and ...