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Belfast Eye

Belfast

27 Mar 2008

St George’s Market on a Saturday morning. High, tented ceilings filling up with barbeque smoke; cheerful art graduates selling hand-printed T-shirts side by side with grumpy, knowledgeable fishmongers and cheese merchants; stalls offering gourmet olive…

Patrick McCabe - The Holy City

Colm Tóibín - Brooklyn; Patrick McCabe - The Holy City

23 Sep 2009

Colm Tóibín’s and Patrick McCabe’s latest novels – both written during Ireland's 'Celtic Tiger' boom years and published this year – are two very different beasts.

Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín returns to Charlotte Square

Irish Booker nominee to discuss his latest novel, Brooklyn

13 Jul 2009

This multi-award-winning scribe has focused on a wide range of themes over the years with Irish society, living abroad, loss and identity being just a few. But one aspect to his writing remains constant: the emotional impact it has on the reader. Since…

Colm Tóibín: Brooklyn

Colm Tóibín: Brooklyn

(4 stars)14 May 2009

Times are tough in Enniscorthy, a small job-scarce town in the south-east of Ireland where idle gossip and parish dances are the only entertainment on offer for the young and restless. Instantly likeable leading lady Eilis Lacey’s life is turned upside…

The Book of Other People

Zadie Smith (ED) - The Book of Other People

(3 stars)29 Nov 2007

ANTHOLOGY The Book of Other People (Hamish Hamilton) ‘Write a short story about a person,’ said Zadie Smith to 23 of fiction’s finest. And they did, each author taking the remit into a vastly different direction. From a New York socialite to a human…

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