Clare Byrne

Lisa Jewell's book, It Could Have Been Her, is out now.

You'll probably see it in your bookshop windows.

It's on display, beautiful green and gold cover.

And it's fabulous.

And it kept me up way too late, but I'm not going to hold that against you.

So nice to meet you.

Thank you for coming in.

We'll take a break.

Ireland, once famed as the land of a thousand welcomes, has become almost overnight a cold house for Jews.

That was in a comment piece in the Wall Street Journal about how anti-Semitism here is spiralling, according to the author.

How damaging is that type of rhetoric for our country?

Larry Donnelly is here, law lecturer from the University of Galway.

Larry, you're very welcome.

This is a sensitive topic, isn't it, to address?

But you want to talk to us about the impact of that perception of Ireland in the United States.

Okay, well, there's a warning in there in what you're saying.

Explain to us what is being said and what the implications of that could be.

People feel very entitled and duty bound to voice their opposition to what's happening in Gaza.

And Ireland has taken a very strong position on that.

So are you saying that we are in danger of anti-Semitism and our objections to what's happening in Gaza being conflated by some in America?