BBC News Arts Correspondent Rebecca Jones meets Sebastian Barry at Hay Festival to hear about his distinguished writing career and latest novel, 'Days Without End', winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2016. Teenaged Tom McNulty has fled brutal poverty in Ireland for America, later enlisting to fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. This dramatic and lyrical tale has won rave reviews. Barry's fine body of historical fiction has roots in the stories passed down the generations of families in Ireland. Show less