Iris Murdoch felt Irish voices made her sick .
Conradi notes A.N . Wilson 's record that Murdoch regretted the sympathetic portrayal of the Irish nationalist cause she had given earlier in The Red and the Green , and a competing defence of the book at Caen in 1978.She said that she felt `` unsentimental about Ireland to the point of hatred '' and `` the sounds of all those Irish voices made me feel privately sick .
Iris Murdoch