{"product_id":"im-never-going-to-be-able-to-sleep-out-here-sarah-long","title":"I'm never going to be able to sleep out here, Sarah Long","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eSarah Long is an artist and writer based in Cork City. Sarah uses the aesthetics and fluidity of girlhood as a mode of criticality, probing ideas of personal and national identity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eInvoking the language of dreams, Sarah identifies reverberations in Irish culture and combines these\u003cbr\u003ereferences with personal stories and motifs. She views this rearranging and reinterpreting of histories\u003cbr\u003eand visualities as an act of feminist fictioning, highlighting moments and ideas that haunt, shape\u003cbr\u003eand subjugate our collective consciousness, specifically our notions of the Irish nation. Sarah\u003cbr\u003epublished her novella \u003cem\u003eW\/w\u003c\/em\u003e in 2025. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI’m never going to be able to sleep out here\u003c\/em\u003e invites the reader into the confidence—and bedroom—of the autofictional character Mary. She implores you to listen and decipher her strange visions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eMary is a body, a woman trapped, Mother Ireland, you, me, us, Sarah, a mortal bean, a big sack of\u003cbr\u003epotatoes, a shapeshifter, a girl, a curled up fiddlehead, a voice to be ignored, a voice to be listened to, a public persona, a private thought, a never ending monologue. Mary is an allegory of a painting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePublished by Bloomers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoft cover \u003cbr\u003e112 pages\u003cbr\u003e145 mm x 210 mm\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-0369-7900\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59180518375755,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/files\/Screenshot2026-11-08at13.31.22.png?v=1794144764","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/products\/im-never-going-to-be-able-to-sleep-out-here-sarah-long","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}