Thomas Flanagan once said: 'It is not the romantic, rather sentimental Ireland of many Irish-Americans that I love, but the actual Ireland, a complex, profound, historical society, woven of many strands, some bright and some dark.' In There You Are, Flanagan reflects on journeys through his own favourite parts of Ireland, on past and present Irish history, on writers such as Yeats, O'Neill, Brian Moore, and O'Hara, as well as on Fitzgerald and Hemingway and the films of John Ford.… (more)