San Francisco’s United Irish Cultural Center and Bookshop West Portal are delighted to jointly welcome the esteemed Colm ToÍbín, Irish author of Brooklyn and Long Island. We are thrilled Colm is returning to celebrate his new collection of stories, The News from Dublin, with us. There will be a cash bar. Tickets are required for admission and include one copy of The News from […]
Rakestraw Books is thrilled to invite you to join us on Saturday, 4 April 2025 at 9:30 AM as we welcome our old friend Colm Tóibín back. During this eagerly anticipated visit Tóibín will be discussing his spectacular new collection of short stories, The News from Dublin. Whether you have been reading Tóibín’s work for years or you discovered him […]
ICKETED OFFSITE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome acclaimed author Colm Tóibín (Long Island, Brooklyn) for a discussion about The News from Dublin, a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. “One of the world’s best living […]
We are beyond thrilled to host (again!) Colm Tóibín conversation with the incomparable Mary Dixon (WBEZ) about his new book, THE NEWS FROM DUBLIN, eleven stories that “transport readers across continents and eras.” After giving us the widely acclaimed novel LONG ISLAND, and, most recently A LONG WINTER, Tóibín brings us this magnificent set of stories, his first short story collection in 14 years. […]
WORLD RENOWNED NOVELIST COLM TÓIBÍN with a screening of BROOKLYN and his newest book Monday, April 13 at 7:30 PM $50 Public | $40 Members Tickets include screening of Brooklyn, copy of The News From Dublin, interview with Q&A, plus gala book-signing reception with live musical entertainment by NY Times acclaimed guitarist Mike Soloway. The Cinema Arts Centre is honored […]
Chappaqua Library presents an author event with Colm Tóibín at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center. Colm Tóibín will be discussing his newest short story collection, The News From Dublin: Stories, featuring tales of longing, family, and life away from home. Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician, […]
Celebrated as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” (Los Angeles Times), Colm Tóibín is a master of short fiction as well as the novel, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. The eleven stories transport readers across continents and eras. In “The Journey to Galway,” a […]
From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” (Los Angeles Times), Colm Tóibín […]
The Author Events Series presents Colm Tóibín | The News from Dublin: Stories Montgomery Auditorium is now sold out, but tickets are still available for a live simulcast screening in a separate room at the Parkway Central Library. Standby seating will be available in the overflow room for guests who wish to wait for an opportunity […]
Join us for an evening with Colm Tóibín, the award-winning author of Brooklyn and Long Island, as he visits The Center to regale us with stories written by himself and the late, under-recognized Irish American author, Mary Lavin. Tóibín has earned international acclaim for his precise, compassionate prose and his ability to illuminate the private edges of history. A regular […]
New Canaan Library is pleased to present author Colm Tóibín for a special evening celebrating his latest work. Hailed as one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), Tóibín’s new work, The News from Dublin, is a collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of […]