Breaking Ground: Ireland’s ethnic minority writers get a new platform
A new literary project aims to give an accurate portrait of our diversifying nation
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan. Photo: Basil Lim
Filomena Kaguako
Think of a great Irish work of literature. Think of another. And another. Now think of one by an ethnic minority writer based here.
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