Book review: Tanglewood

Dermot Bolger talks to Tony Clayton-Lea about his new book Tanglewood and how he believes that the introduction of free secondary education in the late 1960s was at the root of the 1980s burst of Irish creativity.

Book review: Tanglewood
Sat, 16 May, 2015 - 01:00
Tony Clayton-Lea

Dermot Bolger

New Island Books, €13.99

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