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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Fresh Air · Best Of: Novelist Maggie O’Farrell / A personal history of the N-Word · 6 Jun 2026 podcast

But I suppose I feel I feel quite Irish in Britain.

And I feel when I'm in Ireland, I feel quite British just for the way I talk.

Although my passport is Irish and always has been.

And I'm very proud of that.

I did.

Yes, I did.

I do.

I suppose so.

Yeah, I don't ever, I hope nobody feels like I'm trespassing on anyone else's beliefs or, but it just felt, it just, it was a story that just wouldn't go away.

And I don't know who else would have written about my great-great-grandfather.

It is based in your family history, so it does seem legitimate.

I remember I was worried about it.

I was talking to my husband and he said, to be honest, he said, you've got more right to write this than you have about 16th century England or Renaissance Florence.

And I thought, oh, yeah, that's true, actually.

I hadn't thought of it that way.

I've heard it said that Ireland's biggest export is not, in fact, Guinness.

It's people.

And I'm sure that's true.

I think it's –

Yeah, I mean, it's inevitable, you know.

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