Sara Pascoe

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

That's what I loved about that pathway that you that you took with these ancient people is I think it gave a real respect to Ireland.

And again, sort of painting in a history that isn't always there of like there have been people here for a long time.

Like they are humans.

They are real to take away from like you said, this narrative of like, oh, there's just a great famine.

There's emigration.

There you go.

The end.

History is so grim.

I mean, that's how history always works.

I know, I know.

It's too heartbreaking.

It's so awful.

When I saw that in the book, I was like, I knew it was true, but I really hoped it wasn't.

Because I was like, that's just a novelist making something sad.

I'm afraid not.

You need to humanise these things.

And that's the thing, when things are, like you said, far enough away that they've become a different narrative, without the humanisation of it, it's very hard for us to really understand why it matters.

And I think what you do so well in this book is you start to understand the consequences of that.

The consequences of a famine are you have Thomas's, you know,

can't talk about this to his children.

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