The small island has produced Nobel laureates and Booker winners and hosts a booming writing and publishing scene. What’s the secret to its success?
he Irish just chat about everything. We love telling tales and yarning. There’s no other country where you could talk for an hour about the weather,” says Aisling Cunningham, 57, the owner of
in Brooklyn, New York). “Whenever I go out with a group of friends I haven’t seen in a while, everyone’s primed to be like: ‘Wait till I tell you,’ and has a story ready to go.” “Our approach to literature is very much focused on individual writers and making sure that their work can get out to audiences,” says Bannan, 46, who is also a novelist. “We put a huge amount of emphasis on our bursary awards. The budget for that is close to €2m – and that’s just money that’s going straight to individual writers so that they can take time out to work on their projects.
“When you’re looking at the south, it’s a whole ecosystem that goes even beyond grants and bursaries,” says the Belfast writer Wendy Erskine, 56. “It’s festivals, it’s magazines, it’s that whole infrastructure that just allows people to write.
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