Thomas McCarthy is one of Ireland's most respected writers Waterstones in Cork is where his new book \"Questioning Ireland\" will be launched on Sept 3rd at 6.30pm. Questioning Ireland is a lucky bag of commentary gathered from sources as varied as The Irish Times, the Dublin Review of Books, PN Review , a Cork City Planning Department Document and Facebook. Interrogating the legacies of Northern writers and the Southern \"Ascendancy\" it attends to literary works as well as the visual arts with partiucular focus on figures from the author's native Waterford and adopted Cork.
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