Sally Rooney novels reset expectations of Ireland, says TV director

Lenny Abrahamson says characters in the books and TV adaptations less encumbered than his own generation

The Irish director behind Conversations With Friends and Normal People has said he loved depicting a modern and unencumbered Ireland in the hit TV programmes.

Lenny Abrahamson, who adapted Sally Rooney's first two novels for the screen, said he noticed striking differences between the Ireland of Rooney's generation and his own.