We Irish are a nation of storytellers, and here’s how it’s done

WHAT are we if we’re not our stories? — so went the ubiquitous radio ad earlier in the year. It was for a play — the Walworth Farce, also known as ‘The Play With All The Gleesons In It’. Cork people cringed when they heard the ad.

We always do when we hear an ‘outsider’ doing Corkish. But to Brendan Gleeson’s credit, it was not a bad Cork accent. And his character had a point — what ARE we if we’re not our stories?