Neil Jordan is the closest that Irish cinema has to an auteur – a film director whose control is such that he or she is the sole author of the film, in the same way that someone authors a book – and who returns to certain themes over a number of movies. On the sleeve of Jordan’s newly published memoir, Amnesiac, he is described as “Ireland’s greatest director and one of her finest novelists”. This is not an overstatement. With a body of work consisting of 20 films, two television series, one book of short stories and nine novels, Jordan…

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