The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
Buchi Emecheta, Novelist (1944) |
John Gardner, Novelist (1933) |
Josh Hartnett, Actor (1978) |
Norman Jewison, Director (1926) |
John B. Keane, Playwright (1928) |
Ali Landry, Model (1973) |
John Cotton Dana, Author (1929) |
Ruth St. Denis, Dancer (1968) |
Robert Green Ingersoll, Lawyer (1899) |