{"id":303840,"date":"2026-01-26T03:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303840\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T03:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:05:11","slug":"i-dont-see-there-is-any-point-retrospectively-criticising-people-for-the-way-that-they-behaved-butcher-boy-novelist-patrick-mccabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/303840\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t see there is any point retrospectively criticising people for the way that they behaved\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Butcher Boy\u2019 novelist Patrick McCabe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe \u2018Butcher Boy\u2019 novelist remains true to his Irish counter-culture roots\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Playwright and novelist Patrick McCabe. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Patrick McCabe 1111.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Playwright and novelist Patrick McCabe. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The King of Bog Gothic \u2013 as he was affectionately crowned in 2003 \u2013 was at a funeral last week in Monaghan. Patrick McCabe gave a reading from the prayers of the faithful at the mass for a relative of his wife, artist Margot Quinn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The writer felt all the people in the church seemed to be \u201cat their best\u201d. They understood the ritual and the symbols, and knew what they had to do, he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u2018Butcher Boy\u2019 novelist remains true to his Irish counter-culture roots Playwright and novelist Patrick McCabe. Photo: Mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[7118,4747,18,117,19,17,944,145104],"class_list":{"0":"post-303840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-cillian-murphy","9":"tag-barry-egan","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sinead-oconnor","15":"tag-stephen-rea"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115959190742105985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}