When did you get the idea to write a book about the fathers of Joyce, Yeats and Wilde? It’s not as though I make a deliberate decision to write about it, it just comes up in book after book. I also really, really love Fanny Price from Mansfield Park. No, I’m really, really predictable. • Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats & Joyce by Colm Tóibín is published by Penguin (£9.99).

Source: The Guardian July 20, 2019 16:52 UTC