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1961: Frank O'Connor's Cork | Monitor | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive
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17:35Now Playing'If I hadn't left Cork, I'm quite certain I wouldn't have been the writer I am; but I think that if I hadn't been brought up in a city like this, I wouldn't have been a writer at all...'
Frank O'Connor, the celebrated Irish short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and poet, revisits the city of his birth, where he lived for twenty-eight years and which provides the setting or inspiration for many of his stories. He speaks to Huw Wheldon about what Cork means to him, reflects on his childhood there and why he left. He considers the importance of provincial cities like Cork to the literary world - cities that have fired the imagination of so many writers.
Clip taken from Monitor, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 19 November, 1961.
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