Sebastian Barry

Annie Dunne is a novel written by author and playwright Sebastian Barry. First published by Faber and Faber in 2002 it is currently under reprint from Penguin Books. Set in rural Ireland in the late 1950`s the novel recounts the life of Annie, who having been made homeless after the death of her sister is forced to …

A Long Long Way is a novel by Irish author Sebastian Barry, set during the First World War.

Recording the events of her life from a mental hospital as her hundredth birthday approaches, Roseanne McNulty considers returning to society when she learns that the hospital is about to close, but her situation is complicated by the possibility that Roseanne remembers her life quite differently from what is …