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 ...
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 ... McGahern was amused by many things and people. There was ...
Irish writer Colm Tóibín, who is currently living in ... it was an area where you could still buy a house, which in LA like every other city almost, houses have gone out of everyone's reach ...
This Georgian townhouse on Dublin's Usher's ... minister to save the house "for the nation and the world". Signatories included Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Colm Tóibín and Anne Enright.
Colm Toibin talks to John ... As a young gay man in Barcelona, Toibin admitted he ‘got very little work done’. He did eventually return to Dublin, making a living from journalism before ...
Initially conceived as a book about gambling, On the Edge expanded exponentially to encompass game theory, venture capital and the opportunities and challenges presented by artificial intelligence ...
Armed with Thom’s Directory, James Joyce strove to recreate 1904 Dublin as accurately as possible, down to the last solicitor and street railing. But, as Colm Tóibín explains in a recent piece, the ...
Sally Rooney's "Intermezzo" and Colm Tóibín's "Long Island" have been ... The novel follows "Peter and Ivan, Dublin brothers with a hefty age gap, are untethered and grieving the death of ...