‘I am deeply interested in Ireland’s complex past’
‘I have a ritual of making tea, lighting a candle and then I am gone into my fictional world’
Iris Murdoch centenary marked with stamp and plaque
‘Even at the end of her life when she had Alzheimer’s, she remembered she was from Ireland’
Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 review: lady of letters
The Dublin-born author’s passionate, promiscuous nature is laid bare in this well-edited collection, as are her conflicted views on Ireland, ‘island of spells, provincial pigsty’
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