“Time heals people say,” Brighid McLaughlin writes in her extraordinary memoir. “It does like fuck. Nothing heals.” Brighid McLaughlin is waiting for me at The Grapevine restaurant in Dalkey. It is lunchtime and she has ordered a glass of champagne. This might give the impression that the interview will go in a certain direction. But nothing should be assumed with Brighid McLaughlin. Nothing goes only in one direction. “I live in parallel universes,” she says on more than one occasion. Dalkey has been her home since 1998, but she sees it as few others do today. Her home – Biddy’s…
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