On the morning of Friday, April 3rd, the highly decorated Irish author Colm Tóibín found himself in a rather unusual position: seated in front of a class of twelfth graders at Benjamin Banneker ...

Soon after September 11, 2001, Colm Toibin managed to offend one of his audience while speaking at the New York Public Library. ''I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went ...

Acclaimed novelist Colm Toibin discussing his play “The Testament of Mary” which ran at ACT’s Geary Theatre in October and November, 2014, and also discussing his novel “Nora Webster,” which was ...

Multi-award winning Irish writer Colm Tóibín spoke to Máiría Cahill about a united Ireland, the rise of racism and the ...

On Thursday, Tóibín will read from his ninth novel, The Testament of Mary (2012), as part of the President's Reading Series. The novel tells the story of Jesus' mother Mary, who, according to the book ...

The award-winning Irish author talks about his latest novel, ‘House of Names,’ based on the Greek story of Clytemnestra, Agamemnon and their children Iphigenia, Electra and Orestes. In the interview ...

Irish writer Colm Toibin, author of “Brooklyn” and “The Master”, has revealed his recent struggle with testicular cancer which had spread to his liver Writing a lengthy 8,500 words in the London ...

The Irish author Colm Tóibín will come to North Carolina for the very first time this month on a tour for his latest novel, Long Island, a sequel to 2009’s beloved blockbuster Brooklyn. The first of ...

In the past seven years, celebrated Irish writer Colm Tóibín has published two novels (“The Magician,” about the German writer Thomas Mann and “House of Names,” a retelling of the ancient tale of ...