Maggie O'Farrell's Land explores mapmaking in Ireland

Author Maggie O'Farrell has published Land, a historical novel focused on map-making and memory in Ireland after the Great Famine. The work marks a continuation of the writer's focus on historical fiction following the success of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait.

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Land by Maggie O'Farrell is haunting tale set in post-famine Ireland about history, map-making and memory

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David Nally, University Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge1 Jun 2026, 15:03similarity 80%
Land by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting tale set in post-famine Ireland about history, map-making and memorypress release
David Nally, Professor of Historical Geography in the Department of Geography and a Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge1 Jun 2026, 15:03similarity 95%

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Land by Maggie O’Farrell review – an ambitious story of mapmaking in Ireland

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