FINTAN O’TOOLE and John Banville have incurred the ridicule of British satirical mag Private Eye, despite their deserved status as two of Britain’s favourite Irish luvvies. The Eye recently observed that the two long-time Irish Times colleagues’ reverential views and reviews of each other’s works has reached an epic scale. The mag regurgitated extracts from Banville’s… Read more »
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