The writer on finding the confidence to trace the journey of his character Eilis in follow-up novel Long Island
Colm Tóibín
May 18th-24th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
May 11th-17th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Hughes’s new book, Emma, Disappeared, follows James Lyster, whose life begins to unravel after the disappearance of a high-achieving university graduate
Paula Meehan, Sebastian Barry, Colm Tóibín and others share fond memories of the writer
New novels by Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín and Marian Keyes are among the works in the pipeline, along with eagerly anticipated debuts by Ferdia Lennon and Scott McKendry
Irish author on prizes, translations and being the second Laureate of Irish Fiction
Merkel suggested Israel’s security was Germany’s Staatsräson (raison d’etre) but how far, and how unconditional, is that support in these challenging times?
Irish authors whose works are in a data set used to train AI share their views
Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright and Irish booksellers on the real difference the prestigious award makes as two Irish writers hit shortlist
While the Irish scenes in the novel are set in Enniscorthy, it is extremely rare that the movie of a novel will be filmed in the actual streets and buildings depicted in the original story, as happened with Brooklyn
Television: The tone is elevated, as you would expect from a film about bogs from a text by Colm Tóibín, and focusing on Seamus Heaney
The star’s New York classes inspired Terrence McNally to write his Tony-winning play. Caitríona Ní Mhurchú brings the soprano to life in a new Dublin staging
Sadness and anger from some committee members at being ‘very arbitrarily dismissed’, while others say some volunteers ‘deemed more important than others’
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE...
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices