Paul Murray

Jan 14, 2025 | actuarialpost.co.uk | Paul Murray |Swiss Re

Forecasting the future can be a notoriously tricky business, for reinsurers or anyone else. Ask Robert Metcalfe, the US tech pioneer and inventor of Ethernet technology who 30 years ago predicted in a magazine column that the internet "will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 will collapse." Even though Metcalfe's crystal ball was wildly off target, I still believe looking ahead with a critical, thoughtful eye has real value.

Mar 16, 2023 | thebookerprizes.com | Paul Murray |Donal Ryan |Dónal Ryan |Kevin Barry |Sally Rooney

Reading this scene recently, I imagined that ‘the corpse next door’ was laughing because it had a premonition that the period of economic growth in Ireland, that was dubbed The Celtic Tiger, would end abruptly with the 2008 global financial crash. The crisis caused devastating unemployment and was a before-and-after moment, so the term ‘post-Celtic Tiger writers’ has been used to categorise the new generation of Irish novelists.