Sinéad Gleeson

For me, I think it's that quietness.

It's that, again, to go back to that term, the moments of recognition.

I think she saw things in people, in situations, in cultures that lots of other writers, Irish otherwise, just don't pick up on and could never hope to encapsulate and grab into the writing.

And I think that's one of the reasons that she stands out.

And again, I think there's a lot of

There's been a lot of love for me because she is the embodiment of the forgotten Irish writer and the forgotten Irish female writer, as we said at the start of the programme.

To be so good and to be so overlooked is almost criminal.

Yeah, I agree with that.

Ferocious.

I think because they're ferocious in that they're almost unbearable.

They're quite painful to read.

They make you flinch reading them.

You almost feel yourself flayed.

You feel that smarting sense of pain when you're reading the story.

You feel very intrusive reading the stories and that I often feel like, you know, you're standing in those roundelay rooms and it's not because I've seen them.

We've all got a picture of what they look like.

But I almost feel like I'm standing in the room listening to somebody's argument or something very private that shouldn't be revealed.

And also, I think there was a mythology held up about what was going on in Irish family homes and every marriage was happy.

Everybody was fine.

Everything was wonderful.