Malachy McCourt discusses his book, “Voices of Ireland.” He begins by explaining his personal background being born in New York and his family moving back to Ireland when he was a child. He talks about starting his book with Jonathan Swift’s essay, “A Modest Proposal,” and it’s satire of the way the British were treating the Irish. Martinson asks McCourt to read several of the stories in the book including a passage by Lady Gregory. He talks about the positive and negative press surrounding Oscar Wilde, and mentions why some stories made it in his compilation and why others did not. He ends the interview by reading several poems by William Butler Yeats.
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