Oisín Fagan
Irish novelist and UCD Writer in Residence 2026; author of Nobber (longlisted Desmond Elliott Prize) and Eden's Shore (Sunday Times Book of the Year)
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Jul 9, 2026
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So if you think of, like, human achievement- Literature is something humans have been doing for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Oisín FaganGUEST
It's, uh, m- the greatest artists of all time have worked in, in, in the written word, if it's poetry, if it's narratives, anything like this.
Oisín FaganGUEST
And it's, it's just this incredible thing that we can witness happening through the ages of us telling each other stories.
Oisín FaganGUEST
And, you know, in cinema we've been telling each other stories for about 100 years, but in, in novels we've been doing it for hundreds and hundreds of years.
