Sarah Harte: Thomas McCarthy’s book offers an original and beady take on Ireland

McCarthy's 'Questioning Ireland' is a collection of his writing culled from 50 years covering history, literature, economics, politics, and the place of women in Irish society

Thomas McCarthy: ‘I doubt if wealth or social success would have released me from the nightmares of rural poverty in the way that art has done.’

I was in Waterstones last week on St Patrick’s Street for the launch of Thomas McCarthy’s new book, Questioning Ireland. 

On the drive home to ‘the country’ it struck me how we urgently need a greater variety of voices and perspectives on this island.