Colm Toibin

I wanted Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney to come up, with Paul Durcan as back-up. All three came up!

Colm Tóibín, Elena Ferrante and Sam Heughan among the 170-plus signatories

Review: Druid’s chronicle of Eavan Boland’s life and work overlooks myriad possibilities

Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce

Charlie Flanagan says society building on Fifth Avenue is source of diaspora pride

Book reviews: Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing and Queer Love are cause for celebration

Liam Neeson, Colm Tóibín sign letter asking that Fifth Avenue building not be sold

The director on his new historical fiction novel, Harvey Weinstein and ageism in film

‘I felt like his story hadn’t been told,’ Ebs Burnough says about his Truman Capote documentary

Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight

Talks on territorial issue have been on ice since for nearly a year

A year ago they were springing up like daffodils. Covid-19 hit like a dose of Roundup

The photographer’s bewitching images find the magic in the everyday

Growing up on Co Monaghan farm developed his ‘knowledge and love for the land’

Despite Covid-19, key elements from the summer line-up are ready for an autumn showing

Letter sent to senior black representative criticises Amazon and Walmart for selling shirts

In this article the paper says novels by Sally Rooney and Colm Tóibín will transport you here

More than 200 artists back Amnesty International’s call for military embargo

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

President Higgins pays tribute to author and artist who died two weeks after his wife Mairéad

Avolon chief Dómhnal Slattery questions State’s preparedness for outbreak

Irish authors assess the outgoing government’s legacy and what the next one needs to do

If the core and front of the house are safe, does it matter what else gets built around it?

Letter urges Government to ‘save’ 15 Usher’s Island after plans lodged to turn Dublin house into 56-bed hostel

There were certainly notable missteps, but he gave Irish women a much-needed voice

The Manchester-born drawing specialist had a major impact on the Irish artistic landscape

Tóibín’s error when discussing the prose in genre fiction was to move from ‘I just get bored’ to ‘it’s blank, it’s nothing’

The author Colm Tóibín discusses female Irish novelists, families, and when he wishes he had a TV

Lisa Dwan and Colm Tóibín rework Antigone by giving voice to overshadowed sister Ismene

Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre

Footage of secret concert on community centre roof in Sheriff Street in 1982 emerges

Step by painful step, the novelist has written about his diagnosis, agony and treatment

Sally Rooney and Bernard MacLaverty shortlisted for the €100,000 prize

‘In reality, it was a boozier Bloomsday organised by the cast of The Inbetweeners’: a Dubliners tour of Dublin pubs

Despite its ‘mistakes, lapses, and occasional acts of cowardice’, Europe remains ‘the second home of every free man and woman’

An Irishman’s Diary

The city is full of ghosts ... in the house where Wilde grew up, the library where Yeats studied

Bernard Loughlin ran artists’ retreat at Annaghmakerrig in Co Monaghan for 18 years

Loss of planned project with writer Colm Tóibín for Inis Meáin a significant blow

John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Roy Foster among over 100 writers to express dismay over departure of New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma