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</style><table class="infobox ib-book vcard"><caption class="infobox-title">The Secret Scripture </caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">First edition cover</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Sebastian_Barry" title="Sebastian Barry">Sebastian Barry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data">Novel</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Faber_and_Faber" class="mw-redirect" title="Faber and Faber">Faber and Faber</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">29 September 2008</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">Ireland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (<a href="Hardcover" title="Hardcover">Hardcover</a> & <a href="Paperback" title="Paperback">Paperback</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">312 pp (Paperback)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">

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</style><bdi>978-0-571-21529-4</bdi></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/300404404">300404404</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="A_Long_Long_Way" title="A Long Long Way">A Long Long Way</a> </i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="On_Canaan's_Side" title="On Canaan's Side">On Canaan's Side</a> </i></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><i><b>The Secret Scripture</b></i> is a 2008 novel written by Irish writer <a href="Sebastian_Barry" title="Sebastian Barry">Sebastian Barry</a>.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_summary">Plot summary</h2></div>

<p>The main character is an old woman, Roseanne McNulty, who now resides in the <a href="Roscommon" title="Roscommon">Roscommon</a> Regional Mental Hospital. Having been a patient for some fifty years or more, Roseanne decides to write an autobiography. She calls it "Roseanne's testimony of herself" and charts her life and that of her parents, living in <a href="Sligo" title="Sligo">Sligo</a> at the turn of the 20th century. She keeps her story hidden under the loose floorboard in her room, unsure as yet if she wants it to be found. The second narrative is the "commonplace book" of the current chief Psychiatrist of the hospital, Dr Grene. The hospital now faces imminent demolition. He must decide who of his patients are to be transferred, and who must be released into the community. He is particularly concerned about Roseanne, and begins tentatively to attempt to discover her history. It soon becomes apparent that both Roseanne and Dr Grene have differing stories as to her incarceration and her early life, but what is consistent in both narratives is that Roseanne fell victim to the religious and political upheavals in Ireland in the 1920s – 1930s.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Inspiration">Inspiration</h2></div>

<p>The novel was inspired by a story told to him by his mother of an old relative:

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</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>We were driving through <a href="Sligo" title="Sligo">Sligo</a>, and my mother pointed out a hut and told me that was where my great uncle's first wife had lived before being put into a lunatic asylum by the family. She knew nothing more, except that she was beautiful.<sup id="cite_ref-jeffries1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jeffries1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> I once heard my grandfather say that she was no good. That's what survives and the rumours of her beauty. She was nameless, fateless, unknown. I felt I was almost duty-bound as a novelist to reclaim her and, indeed, remake her.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>

<p>The story also ties in with previous novels by Barry, especially <i>The Whereabouts of Eneas Mcnulty</i>, the title character being a brother in law to Roseanne McNulty.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2></div>

<p>It won the <a href="James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prize">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a>, one of the most prestigious English literature prizes and the oldest prize in the United Kingdom.

</p><p>The novel won the Book of the Year at the 2008 <a href="Costa_Book_Awards" title="Costa Book Awards">Costa Book Awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was despite the misgivings of the jury, one of whom, <a href="Matthew_Parris" title="Matthew Parris">Matthew Parris</a>, said "They agreed that it was flawed, and almost no one liked the ending, which was almost fatal to its success."<sup id="cite_ref-jeffries1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jeffries1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>At the Irish Book Awards, it won "Novel of the Year" and the Choice Award.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>It was shortlisted for the <a href="Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Man Booker Prize</a> for Fiction,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> narrowly losing to <i><a href="The_White_Tiger_(Adiga_novel)" title="The White Tiger (Adiga novel)">The White Tiger</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Book_at_Bedtime_adaptation"><i>Book at Bedtime</i> adaptation</h2></div>

<p>In May 2008, the novel was adapted and abridged by Neville Teller for <a href="BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>'s <i><a href="Book_at_Bedtime" title="Book at Bedtime">Book at Bedtime</a></i> with <a href="Doreen_Keogh" title="Doreen Keogh">Doreen Keogh</a> and <a href="Alex_Jennings" title="Alex Jennings">Alex Jennings</a> voicing the roles of Roseanne and Dr. Grene, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="The_Secret_Scripture_(film)" title="The Secret Scripture (film)">The Secret Scripture (film)</a></div>

<p>A film version, also titled <i>The Secret Scripture</i>, was directed by <a href="Jim_Sheridan" title="Jim Sheridan">Jim Sheridan</a> and stars <a href="Rooney_Mara" title="Rooney Mara">Rooney Mara</a> and <a href="Vanessa_Redgrave" title="Vanessa Redgrave">Vanessa Redgrave</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Filming began in January 2015. In February, filming moved to <a href="Inistioge" title="Inistioge">Inistioge</a>, <a href="County_Kilkenny" title="County Kilkenny">County Kilkenny</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-inistioge1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inistioge1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Filming completed on 6 March.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other stars include <a href="Eric_Bana" title="Eric Bana">Eric Bana</a> and <a href="Theo_James" title="Theo James">Theo James</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as Irish natives <a href="Jack_Reynor" title="Jack Reynor">Jack Reynor</a>, <a href="Tom_Vaughan-Lawlor" title="Tom Vaughan-Lawlor">Tom Vaughan-Lawlor</a>, and <a href="Aidan_Turner" title="Aidan Turner">Aidan Turner</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080904215802/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article3857416.ece">Review: <i>The Secret Scripture</i> by Barry Sebastian – TimesOnline</a></li>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/may/24/fiction1">Review: <i>The Secret Scripture</i> – Guardian.co.uk</a></li></ul>

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</style><div id="Works_by_Sebastian_Barry45" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Works by <a href="Sebastian_Barry" title="Sebastian Barry">Sebastian Barry</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i>Boss Grady's Boys</i> (1988)</li>

<li><i>Prayer's of Sherkin</i> (1990)</li>

<li><i>White Woman Street</i> (1992)</li>

<li><i>The Only True History of Lizzie Finn</i> (1995)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Steward_of_Christendom" title="The Steward of Christendom">The Steward of Christendom</a></i> (1995)</li>

<li><i>Our Lady of Sligo</i> (1998)</li>

<li><i>Hinterland</i> (2002)</li>

<li><i>Whistling Psyche</i> (2004)</li>

<li><i>The Pride of Parnell Street</i> (2007)</li>

<li><i>Dallas Sweetman</i> (2008)</li>

<li><i>Tales of Ballycumber</i> (2009)</li>

<li><i>Andersen's English</i> (2010)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i>The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty</i> (1998)</li>

<li><i><a href="Annie_Dunne" title="Annie Dunne">Annie Dunne</a></i> (2002)</li>

<li><i><a href="On_Canaan's_Side" title="On Canaan's Side">On Canaan's Side</a></i> (2011)</li>

<li><i>The Temporary Gentleman</i> (2015)</li>

<li><i><a href="Days_Without_End_(novel)" title="Days Without End (novel)">Days Without End</a></i> (2016)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poetry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i>The Water-Colourist</i> (1983)</li>

<li><i>Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever</i> (1989)</li></ul>

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