Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard 13 Sep
Claire Nicholls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And you had a family member who drew some of the early maps of Ireland.
Maggie, tell me about this man.
Were you able to find evidence of your great-great-grandfather when you went and did that research?
What inspired this research?
Was it because you knew you might want to write a novel about this man?
And I mean, this story, I mean, these two incredible stories have been in your family for so long.
Maggie, why do you think now, now was the time to tell it?
It's probably a gift for the novelist, right, to not have too much information because you go, well, we don't have to stick to the record.
I get to get creative.
I've never thought a lot about mapping, Maggie, until I read this book.
What can you tell me about the relationship between drawing a map and power?
And I guess it's the same case for Ireland, right?
It's the British forces who are in charge of these maps.
They're in charge of what things are named.
It's about taking away the language as well, right?
algebra it involves art cartography history linguistics folklore you know it's an incredibly complicated you had to be a renaissance man to be working on it in those times I love seeing the way your face lights up when you're talking about maps Maggie and I just think this is so amazing because five years ago you and I were talking about Shakespeare and Hamnet and now you know you've found this whole new area of interest I mean what a life you lead
Look, you're with fellow neeks here on the book show, so you're in safe hands.
So your novel is Land.
It opens in 1865 on a peninsula stretching into the Atlantic Ocean.
We have the father, Thomas, and the son, Liam.
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