A question of taste - Jim O’Malley

Jim O’Malley is the author of Walking the Munster Blackwater, an account of his seven-day walk along the famed river. He’s from East Cork, between Killeagh and Youghal, and worked as a teacher in Cork, Dublin and Killorglin. He will read from his book at the Immrama Festival of Travel Writing, Lismore, Co Waterford on June 16-19.

Best recent book: The Hurley Maker’s Son, Patrick Deeley — a sensitive account of growing up in rural east Galway from 1953.

Best recent film: I tend to play catch up with the cinema world such as Force Majeure, a Swedish film 2015, directed by Robert Östlund; a work free of Hollywood clichés.