Radio: Newstalk host Andrea Gilligan discusses a topic rarely aired in public, which is surely illuminating for male ...

An acclaimed author has revealed how a deeply personal connection to Fermanagh inspired the setting of his latest novel, About to Fall Apart.

The winner of this year’s Strokestown International Poetry Competition will also be revealed during the festival. Amy Barry, ...

Rather it showed a real place — an island at the farthest extremity of the known world which, across medieval Europe, was ...

The An Post Irish Book Awards, one of Ireland’s most distinguished and popular literary events, is celebrating its 20th ...

Grief, betrayal and moral complications are explored across nine tales of quiet power that take us from Argentina to County Wexford The title of Colm Tóibín’s new story collection seems to promise, at ...

Here’s an offbeat tip: consider keeping an alternate book handy as you dip into Colm Tóibín’s new story collection, “The News from Dublin.” Lightweight nonfiction may work best — as a sherbet course ...

In the centre of Berlin, there is a large bare room with a hole in the roof to let the light in. In the middle of that room there is a statue of a grieving mother holding her dead son. This modern ...

Currently trying out the opening for a new novel, Colm Tóibín is looking forwards to seeing his latest opera show at the 75th anniversary Wexford Opera Festival in October Domhnall Gleeson and Saoirse ...

Colm Tóibín’s latest collection of short stories delivers a quietly powerful collection of nine stories that traverse Ireland, Spain, Argentina and the US. The News from Dublin offers intimate ...

It’s shocking, this line in Colm Toibin’s new short story collection, The News From Dublin, shocking to the reader who until now has been unsure of Joe’s guilt, shocking because the writer just lets ...

“There is always that sense of being released when the plane takes off from JFK to Dublin,” notes the expat narrator of Sleep, one of nine stories gathered in Colm Tóibín’s The News from Dublin. But, ...