John Banville chews the fat in Dublin

Oh, the Irish gift of gab! Is there anything so charming as... wait, sorry, sorry, that's just an easy, tired, and ethnically unfair way to start this caption. There is no evidence that the Irish talk more or less than any other nationality, and no evidence that John Banville in particular likes to, or even is able to, gab. In any case, here he is on a couch with Irish TV presenter Miriam O'Callaghan at the annual Electric Picnic 2011 Festival in Dublin on September 3, 2011. There are microphones, but probably they are just speaking normal sentences rather than spinning magical stories that put us all in touch with our inner leprechauns. We deeply apologize.