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You grew up in Ireland in the years after the war, when it was a relatively poor country. What was your childhood like?

John Banville: W. H. Auden said that an artist should be loaded with as much childhood as he can bear because it will do him good in later life.  I was misfortunate.  inom had a happy childhood.  At least, when I look back on it, it seems to have been happy.  Boring, of course.  I mean I regard childhood as a complete waste of time.  My own children, I told them to grow up as quickly as they could and stop all this nonsense.  Stop.  Apart from anything else, children just pretend to be children to save the embarrassment of adults.  We know everything by the time we’re nine, ten or eleven.  The rest is just refinement.  The rest is detail.  We know it all by then, but we pretend we don’t so that our parents won’t be embarrassed.

What did your parents think of your writing?

John Banville:  My mother I don’t think ever read anything that I wrote.  B

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The Playboys

1992 film by Gillies MacKinnon

The Playboys is a 1992 Irish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon and starring Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn and Robin Wright. The plot follows an unwed ung mother whose life is transformed with the arrival of a travelling troupe of actors to her Irish village. The script was written by Shane Connaughton, an Oscar nominee for My Left Foot. The film was shot in his native by Redhills, in County Cavan, Ireland.^[3]

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In a small Irish village in 1957, Tara Maguire, a ung resolute woman, is the talk of the town because she is having a baby out of wedlock, and refuses to name the father. During Sunday mass she goes into labour giving birth to a baby boy. Sergeant Brendan Hegarty, the local police officer of the Garda Síochána, and Mick, a local landowner, vie for Tara's hand in marriage, but she refuses them both.

Mick loses his cattle and facing financial ruin commits suicide. People in town blame his deat

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John Banville

Irish writer, also writes as Benjamin Black (born 1945)

William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter.^[2] Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work.^[3][1]

Banville has won the 1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 2003 International Nonino Prize, the 2005 Booker Prize, the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize, the 2013 Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature.^[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007. Italy made him a Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d'Italia (essentially a knighthood) in 2017.^[5] He is a former member of Aosdána, having voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.