This Thursday we are hosting a Zoom event with Colm Tóibín to discuss his new book The Magician, a beautiful work of historical fiction based on the life of Thomas Mann.
Tickets still available eventbrite.ie/e/an-evening-w…
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Fresh from her #EncoreAward win Royal Society of Literature 🎉, the brilliant Caoilinn Hughes will be reading some of her wonderful poems with #ColmToíbín (and me!) in conversation with #JohnMcAuliffe Writers' Week Carcanet Press #NewPoetriesVIII on Fri 4 June @ 8:30pm. Come! eventbrite.com/e/poetry-pearl…
A great night The Gaiety Theatre for the opening of Dublin Theatre Festival Verdant Productions #BlackwaterLighthouse by #ColmToibin with Blackwater Irish Gin to celebrate 🎉
Wishing everyone a HNY “The secret is called beauty. He told him don’t be afraid to put beauty into his music” #Buxtehude advising the young #Bach in the novel #themagician by #colmtoibin The ending to a bedtime story read to Thomas Mann by his mother…
“THE NEW LIFE is filled with nuance and tenderness...[a] brilliant novel [that] dramatizes the relationship between the visionary and the brave, charting the lives of men and women who inspired not only political progress but an entire new way of living and loving.” #ColmToibin
Ken at Second Captains really does get some fantastic guests. Interviews I´ve really enjoyed include Peter Geoghegan Aidan Regan Edward Burke Ivor Crotty Laura Kennedy #ColmTóibín Mark O’Connell Mark William Jones Angela Nagle James Montague It´s just really good stuff. twitter.com/kenearlys/stat…
Meet MPN Hero and Advanced Oncology Nurse Practitioner Natasha Johnson. Learn why she is a source of joy and comfort for people living with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). #VoicesofMPN #MPNHeroes #MPNSM
Excited to hear that a new documentary on Jack B Yeats titled ,'The man who painted Ireland' scripted by #ColmToibin and narrated by #PierceBrosnan will be broadcast by #RTE on the 21st of this month.
(Hopefully they will follow it up with a documentary on Mainie Jellett)..
Tune in this morning to RTÉ Radio 1 at 10am to hear #ColmToibin chat to Miriam O'Callaghan about the compelling story of
#TheBlackwaterLightship
From this Tuesday at The Gaiety Theatre as the opening of Dublin Theatre Festival
Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon
Huge congratulations to Colm Tóibín, awarded The David Cohen Prize for Literature last night. Hear Colm talk about The Magician with David Butler here crowdcast.io/e/colmtoibin-2 #DavidCohenPrize #colmtoibin
Airing from NY Glucksman Ireland House NYU 9am Ted Smyth Mary Pat Kelly Colm Tóibín Ciaran Madden with tributes to John Hume & Pete Hamill. 10am My guest Loretta Brennan Glucksman Adrian Flannelly sponsors Irish Consulate NYC Tourism Ireland US Tourism Ireland
John Banville with The Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in the Servants Hall of Newbridge Demesne for a brilliant ‘Art of Reading’ conversation about John’s novel #TheSingularities @aaknopf #artofreading #colmtoibin #johnbanville
ebayUK Irish1937 Jun2023: I sell a wide range of vintage #collectables including #Irishcoins . Many of these are 75% silver. The highlights of my Irish coins are these rare 1937 shilling and halfcrown.
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Congratulations to Colm Tóibín who has been awarded The David Cohen Prize for Literature 2021, a distinguished prize that recognises a living writer from the UK or the Republic of Ireland for a lifetime’s achievement in literature. New Writing North
''Memory has its own weather: there are clear days and there are cloudy days'
#ColmTóibín
It’s done sentence by sentence. You’re always working out how to write something that’s emotionally accurate, reasonably truthful and has some sort of rhythmic power - #ColmTóibín on #chapterone @dymocksbooks Nigel Featherstone
Too late for #bookpost ? Never! Thanks to Alexia Thomaidis for this fabulous copy of #TheMagician by #ColmToibin
Viking Books UK Out 23rd September 2021
Great photo by Ros Kavanagh in this mornings The Irish Times
Rachel O'Byrne & #RuthMcCabe in #TheBlackwaterLightship
By #ColmToibin
Previews from tonight at The Gaiety Theatre Dublin Theatre Festival
Colm Tóibín’s 1st lecture as The Laureate for Irish Fiction last night Town Hall Theatre was amazing. A fascinating lecture with music from Triona & Maighread NíDhomhnaill Iarla O'Lionaird and Contempo Quartet. It was recorded and there’ll be a link to watch back next week The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon #colmtoibin #laureate
Browse our #DubrayRecommends on our website bit.ly/3iV6gIN or pick up an October recommended reads leaflet in your local Dubray.
Richard Osman #colmtoibin #annmariehourihane Sarah Gilmartin #richardpowers Anthony Doerr Lauren Groff
it was great to talk to the brilliant Mark Blyth for latest political pod secondcaptains.com/2018/03/09/110…
Lovely to see our Laureate for Fiction in such fine form this morning. Colm Tóibín, seeming younger than when I snapped him in 2004! More power .. video /signed offers at Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery in due course. #ColmToibin #LaureateForIrishFiction
Just finished #QueerLove edited by Paul McVeigh Writer with stories about #relationships by Fake John Boyne 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Emma Donoghue Neil Hegarty marybdorceyauthor #ColmTóibín and others. It's a collection of magnificent reads. Munster Literature Centre #amreading #LGBTQI
