 I live in Ireland, but for a long time I was quite averse to writing as an Irish writer. So I was kind of in contention with the tradition rather than writing from inside it. And also, you know, it is a relatively small country in terms of population size and it's quite intimate in that, you know, if you have extended family, as you do, you tend to know a lot of people and you kind of meet them as you go about your business in Dublin.