Jim Kelly interviews author Carlo Gebler at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2005 about the focus on history in Irish writing.

Carlo Gebler is an Irish author and playwright, and has published many fiction and non-fiction novels, plays and short stories. Gebler has also written about Irish history, including The Siege of Derry (2005), which gives an account of Derry’s 105-day struggle against the Jacobite army in 1689.