Maggie O’Farrell

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1,785 appearances 8 recordings 7 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 14 Jun

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Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club · Land by Maggie O'Farrell with Maggie O'Farrell · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

These families got taken from their land that they'd farmed for generations.

They got separated from the rest of the family.

So often they had no idea who they were.

And there was one story that I read about a father who came back from America

looking for any survivors of his family and he went to the workhouse because someone must have told him that your family were taken there and there was one child that survived but the workhouse had written down that she was from Killarney and she was from Killarney and so the father couldn't find her and he went back and it was only after he'd gone

that they realised the mistake.

So he never knew that he had the story.

You have that detail in the book.

So there's a detail of that in the book because I couldn't believe that story.

I mean, even now I'm slightly tearing up.

I do like dogs.

Yeah, we would have dogs.

One of my kids is allergic to dogs.

That's the only reason we don't have dogs.

So I grew up with dogs.

My sister, who lives just down the road from me, she is a shelter vet.

So she has lots of dogs.

And she often has a lot of sighthounds, which I borrow, obviously.

And she's always said to me, one day I'm going to get an Irish Wolf hand.

And I keep saying, okay, I'm ready.

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