On 2 November 1921, James Joyce wrote from Paris to his aunt Josephine in Dublin asking if it was ‘possible for an ordinary person to climb over the area railings of No. 7 Eccles Street, either from ...
What Broderick is attempting is a French novel set in an Irish town; he wishes to put dangerous liaisons into the Irish midlands, to allow his Irish characters the freedom to pray to God for their ...
Their guest for a special edition for their series was none other than Enniscorthy author Colm Tóibín, who put his native town on the map with his incredibly successful 2009 novel Brooklyn and ...
The author also reads from his 1996 novel The Story of the Night. Colm Toibin is known as something of a conundrum – a gay man who writes convincingly about heterosexual relationships ...
Sally Rooney's "Intermezzo" and Colm Tóibín's "Long Island" have been included among TIME magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. Sally Rooney's much anticipated fourth novel and Colm Tóibín ...