Terror behind the piety

Bron Sibree interviews Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry's new novel Old God's Time is relentlessly bleak and disturbing but lays bare in profound ways the horrific cost of the sexual abuse of Irish children at the hands of Catholic priests, writes Bron Sibree

23 April 2023 - 00:00 By Bron Sibree

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