Compulsive Reader talks
Anne Casey on Seang (Hungering)
53:00
Anne Casey drops by to read from and talk about her latest book Seang (Hungering). Anne talks about how the book came about including how she found her "girls" at the Newcastle Industrial School for Girls, pathway to PhD thesis, importance of the mother tongue (Gaeilge, which she speaks so beautifully), the ongoing impact of the Irish famine, the connections between Irish and First Nation…