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Kevin Barry

(1969) Writer

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Kevin Barry is a writer, best known for Night Boat to Tangier.

Quick Facts About Kevin Barry

Born: January 1, 1969
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Night Boat to Tangier

About Kevin Barry

Kevin Gerard Barry was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) soldier and medical student who was executed by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence. He was sentenced to death for his part in an attack upon a British Army supply lorry which resulted in the death of a British soldier.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Kevin Barry

Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the…

Book

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Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

Book

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I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of…

About

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“rabid tush patrol”

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It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my…

Causes

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I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems…

Days

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I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All…

Ashes

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The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that…

Death

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I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of…

Craft

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“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty,…

Absence

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The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as…

Along

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I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's…

Area

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I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself…

After

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I have been as influenced by music and films as by books.

Been

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'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script.

Been

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I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage?

Be happy

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Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite…

Coffee

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“One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer…

Exotic

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It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure…

Assault

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Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hills, make up country…

Along

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Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell…

Book

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“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your…

Aging

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When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a…

Checking

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One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative…

19th century

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“wisps of steam like spectral maggots rose from their damp coats in the inn's fuggyheat”

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