This Hostel Life is one of the few positive things to emerge from the appalling manner of our country’s treatment of political refugees. It tells the stories of migrant women in a hidden Ireland. From a day in the life of women queuing for basic supplies in an Irish direct provision hostel, to a young black woman’s depiction of everyday racism in Ireland. In places the book even features its own dialect, an invented Nigerian pidgin English patois. This Hostel Life has been adapted into an operatic work by Irish National Opera.
