‘I felt the social divisions much more acutely in England than I do in Northern Ireland’

Belfast writer Aimée Walsh on violence against women, ‘assertive’ Northern Irish writing, and laughing out loud at Joe Lycett’s audiobookExile, set in 2008, follows 18-year-old Fiadh as she moves to Liverpool for university and then back to her home city, Belfast . It’s a novelExile is set in a pre-#MeToo Belfast , when women’s bodies and sexuality were always under surveillance. Being a young woman then was a minefield, you’ve said.

Emigration has always been a feature of Irish life and writing. Returning home is a recent twist . What did living abroad teach you about your identity? How important is identity in your writing? Your PhD topic at Liverpool John Moores University in Irish literature and cultural history will be published by Liverpool University Press as Writing Resistance in Northern Ireland this April. Tell us more

The Zone of Interest is the most moving piece of cinema I’ve ever seen. Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a must-read. Patrick Radden Keefe’s podcast Winds of Change about the CIA writing a power ballad is bizarre and brilliant.I’m the guardian of an 18-year-old chihuahua, who we adopted when she was already 10.My tattered copy of Audre Lorde’s Your Silence Will Not Protect You. I love the broken spine and the way it flops open to well-thumbed pages.

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