Who by Fire - Living and dying on the border with the great Eoin McNamee

Eoin McNamee received a message when his new novel The Bureau was published telling him it was the book he was ‘born to write’.This is not a trite phrase. This is a book about living and dying in the north and how so many people who came into the orbit of McNamee’s father died. Eoin McNamee is our guest on Free State today to tell his story. It is the story of his father too, a complex and complicated personality who, after he was struck off as a solicitor, set up the first Bureau de Change on the border in 1982.He talks about his father’s recklessness and men like Dominic McGlinchey. He speaks too about the Troubles and the toll it took on people in terms of life, liberty and morality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Free State is a podcast for the curious that stimulates, provokes, challenges and entertains, while never taking itself too seriously. Free State covers topics from sport to politics, love to loss, the human condition and how to fix the world, with guests from across the planet including Nigerian princes, former Prime Ministers, ex convicts, footballers, boxers and extraordinary people from every walk of life. Free State is presented by Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning. Brolly is a barrister, an original thinker with a fascinating backstory, who donated a kidney to a stranger and then led a crusade to transform organ donation on the island of Ireland, and Fanning is an award-winning interviewer and author. They are not motivational gurus or life coaches. They will never try to sell you a penis scented candle. They are two people from very different worlds, with one core belief uniting them - this is not a high performance podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.