Colm Tóibín’s Long Island (Picador), the follow-up to Brooklyn (Penguin), has been named Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Tóibín is the current Laureate for Irish Fiction and the ...

In The Irish Times tomorrow, there is an interview with award-winning children’s author Martin Waddell, who next week will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Irish Book Awards. Reviews are ...

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Colm Toibín's Long Island, the sequel to Brooklyn which took the literary and film world by storm, has been named as Waterstone's Irish Book of the Year. The novel reunites readers with ...

Colm Tóibín unpacks the work of Elizabeth Bishop and Thom Gunn ... 1690-1762), dressed in a wig, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. Fara Dabhoiwala... Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell look ...

This year, our Fresh Air book critic highlights alternative history, suspense, satire — and some of the most extraordinary letters ever written. Here are Maureen Corrigan's 10 best books of 2024.

These questions of homecoming and immigration—and the details of the town itself—are intimately familiar to the book’s author, Colm Tóibín, who himself left Enniscorthy to come to America.