Now and in Time to Be: Ireland and The Irish

From the furthest rim of the Irish diaspora, Thomas Keneally – Australian Booker Prize-winning author, of Irish descent – returns to his spiritual homeland.

The result is both an unforgettable journey rich in observation and insight, and a passionate exposition of his own deeply personal view of Ireland today: an attempt to unpack his ‘baggage of myths picked up from ancestors and others and match them against the ambiguous late twentieth-century reality’. Between Cork, Ulster and Dublin, history reverberates and persists, and modern Ireland presents its ironies and contradictions.