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SOURCE: “St. Macartan, Minnie the Minx and Mondo Movies: Elliptical Peregrinations through the Subconscious of a Monoghan Writer Traumatised by Cows and the Brilliance of James Joyce,” in Irish University Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring/Summer, 1998, pp. 175-89.
In the following interview, McCabe discusses his background and career.
[Christopher FitzSimon:] Ladies and gentlemen we're here to welcome and listen to Pat McCabe, author of Shay Mouse, Music on Clinton Street, Carn, The Butcher Boy and The Dead School. The Butcher Boy, as everyone knows, was winner of the Irish Times and Aer Lingus Award for Literature in 1992 and in the same year was a Booker Nominee. It has had another life as Frank Pig Says Hello on the stage and yet another life as a major movie by Neil Jordan and others, including Pat. No-one remembers who won the Booker in '92 but there's no way anyone's going to...
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