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Colm Tóibín

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Colm Tóibín (born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. [1]

93 relations: Aosdána, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, Barcelona, Boarding school, Booker Prize, Boston College, Brooklyn, Brooklyn (novel), Carmen Callil, Catalonia, Catholic Church, College of the Holy Cross, Columbia University, Coming out, Costa Book Awards, County Waterford, County Wexford, D. H. Lawrence, David Norris (politician), Desmond Hogan, Diarmaid Ferriter, Diptych, Don DeLillo, Easter Rising, Ed Balls, Ed Miliband, Elizabeth Bishop, Encore Award, Enniscorthy, Ernest Hemingway, Fianna Fáil, Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Frongoch, Full breakfast, Griffin Poetry Prize, Henry James, International Dublin Literary Award, Irish PEN Award, Irish Republican Army, James Baldwin, John Broderick (writer), John Millington Synge, Jorge Luis Borges, Kate O'Brien (novelist), Lambda Literary Award, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, Love in a Dark Time, Loyola University Maryland, ..., Magill, Martin Amis, Michael Colgan (director), Middlebury College, Mothers and Sons (book), National Library of Ireland, New York University, Oscar Wilde, Paul Durcan, Pico Iyer, Princeton University, Protestantism, Return to Montauk, Roger Casement, Royal Society of Literature, St Peter's College, Wexford, Stanford University, Stonewall Book Award, The Blackwater Lightship, The Empty Family, The Guardian, The Heather Blazing, The Irish Famine (book), The Master (novel), The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Observer, The Sign of the Cross (book), The South (novel), The Story of the Night, The Testament of Mary, The Times Literary Supplement, Tom Murphy (playwright), Tramore, Trinity Hall, Dublin, Ulster University, University College Dublin, University of Georgia, University of Liverpool, University of Manchester, University of Texas at Austin, Vincent Browne, W. B. Yeats. Expand index (43 more) »

Aosdána

Aosdána (from aos dána "people of the arts") is an Irish association of artists.

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Augusta, Lady Gregory

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (née Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager.

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Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border

Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border was originally published by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín in 1987 with the title Walking Along the Border.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city in Spain.

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Boarding school

A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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Boston College

Boston College (also referred to as BC) is a private Jesuit Catholic research university located in the affluent village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States, west of downtown Boston.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.

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Brooklyn (novel)

Brooklyn is a 2009 novel by Irish author Colm Tóibín.

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Carmen Callil

Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, DBE (born 15 July 1938) is an Australian publisher, writer and critic.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya, Catalonha, Cataluña) is an autonomous community in Spain on the northeastern extremity of the Iberian Peninsula, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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College of the Holy Cross

The College of the Holy Cross or better known simply as Holy Cross is a private, undergraduate, Roman Catholic, Jesuit liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Coming out

Coming out of the closet, or simply coming out, is a metaphor for LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation or of their gender identity.

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Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards recognizing English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland.

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County Waterford

County Waterford (Contae Phort Láirge; the English name comes from Old Norse Vedrafjörður) is a county in Ireland.

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County Wexford

County Wexford (Contae Loch Garman, Yola: Weiseforthe) is a county in Ireland.

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D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.

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David Norris (politician)

David Patrick Bernard Norris (born 31 July 1944) is an Irish scholar, independent Senator and civil rights activist.

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Desmond Hogan

Desmond Hogan (born 10 December 1950) is an Irish writer and sex offender.

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Diarmaid Ferriter

Diarmaid Ferriter (born 1973) is an Irish historian, and university lecturer.

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Diptych

A diptych (from the Greek δίπτυχον, di "two" + ptychē "fold") is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge.

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Don DeLillo

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist.

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Easter Rising

The Easter Rising (Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916.

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Ed Balls

Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a retired British Labour and Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010 and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015, when he lost his seat to Andrea Jenkyns of the Conservative Party.

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Ed Miliband

Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party as well as Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015.

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Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer.

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Encore Award

The £10,000 Encore Award for the best second novel was first awarded in 1990.

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Enniscorthy

Enniscorthy, is the second-largest town in County Wexford, Ireland.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Fianna Fáil

Fianna Fáil (meaning 'Soldiers of Destiny' or 'Warriors of Fál'), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party (Fianna Fáil – An Páirtí Poblachtánach), is a political party in Ireland.

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Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award

The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award—named in honour of Frank O'Connor, who devoted much of his work to the form—was an international literary award presented for the best short story collection.

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Frongoch

The village of Frongoch is located in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Full breakfast

A full breakfast is a breakfast meal that typically includes bacon, sausages, eggs and a beverage such as coffee or tea.

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Griffin Poetry Prize

The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.

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Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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International Dublin Literary Award

The International Dublin Literary Award (Duais Liteartha Idirnáisiúnta Bhaile Átha Chliath) is an international literary award presented each year for a novel written in English or translated into English.

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Irish PEN Award

Irish PEN Award for Literature is an annual literary award presented by Irish PEN since 1999.

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Irish Republican Army

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is any of several paramilitary movements in Ireland in the 20th and 21st centuries dedicated to Irish republicanism, the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.

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James Baldwin

James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist and social critic.

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John Broderick (writer)

John Broderick (born Athlone, Ireland, 1924 - died Bath, England, 1989) was an Irish novelist.

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John Millington Synge

Edmund John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore.

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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.

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Kate O'Brien (novelist)

Kate O'Brien (3 December 1897 – 13 August 1974) was an Irish novelist and playwright.

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Lambda Literary Award

Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by the U.S.-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.

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London Review of Books

The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British journal of literary essays.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Love in a Dark Time

Love In a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar is a collection of essays by Irish writer Colm Tóibín published in 2002.

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Loyola University Maryland

Loyola University Maryland is a Roman Catholic, Jesuit private liberal arts university located within the Archdiocese of Baltimore in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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Magill

Magill was an Irish politics and current affairs magazine founded by Vincent Browne and others in 1977.

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Martin Amis

Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist and memoirist.

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Michael Colgan (director)

Michael Colgan, OBE (born 1950) is an Irish film and television producer who was also a former director of the Gate Theatre in Dublin.

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Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, United States.

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Mothers and Sons (book)

Mothers and Sons is a collection of short stories written by Irish writer Colm Tóibín and published in 2006.

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National Library of Ireland

The National Library of Ireland (Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann) is Ireland's national library located in Dublin, in a building designed by Thomas Newenham Deane.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan (born 16 October 1944) is a contemporary Irish poet.

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Pico Iyer

Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer (சித்தார்த் பைக்கோ ராகவன் ஐயர்; born 11 February 1957), known as Pico Iyer, is a British-born American essayist and novelist, best known for his travel writing.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.

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Return to Montauk

Return to Montauk (Rückkehr nach Montauk) is a German drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

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Roger Casement

Roger David Casement (1 September 1864 – 3 August 1916), formerly known as Sir Roger Casement CMG, Between 1911 and shortly before his execution for high treason, when he was stripped of his knighthood and other honours.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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St Peter's College, Wexford

St Peter's College, Wexford is an Irish secondary school and former seminary located in Summerhill, overlooking Wexford town.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Stonewall Book Award

The Stonewall Book Award is a set of three literary awards that annually recognize "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience" in English-language books published in the U.S. They are sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) and have been part of the American Library Association awards program, now termed ALA Book, Print & Media Awards, since 1986 as the single Gay Book Award.

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The Blackwater Lightship

The Blackwater Lightship is a 1999 novel written by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, and was short-listed for the Booker Prize.

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The Empty Family

The Empty Family is a collection of short stories by Irish writer Colm Tóibín.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Heather Blazing

The Heather Blazing is the 1992 novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín.

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The Irish Famine (book)

The Irish Famine is a book written by Diarmaid Ferriter and Colm Tóibín.

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The Master (novel)

The Master is a novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Sign of the Cross (book)

The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe is a non-fiction book published in 1994 by Irish writer Colm Tóibín.

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The South (novel)

The South is a 1990 novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín.

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The Story of the Night

The Story of the Night is a novel by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín.

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The Testament of Mary

The Testament of Mary is a short novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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Tom Murphy (playwright)

Tom Murphy (23 February 1935 – 15 May 2018) was an Irish dramatist who worked closely with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and with Druid Theatre, Galway.

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Tramore

Tramore is a seaside town in County Waterford on the southeast coast of Ireland.

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Trinity Hall, Dublin

Trinity Hall is the main extramural hall of residence for students of the University of Dublin, Trinity College in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

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Ulster University

Ulster University (Ollscoil Uladh, Ulster Scots: Ulstèr Universitie or Ulstèr Varsitie), officially the University of Ulster, is a multi-campus public university located in Northern Ireland.

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University College Dublin

University College, Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD; An Coláiste Ollscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a research university in Dublin, Ireland.

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University of Georgia

The University of Georgia, also referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is an American public comprehensive research university.

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University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool is a public university based in the city of Liverpool, England.

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University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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Vincent Browne

Vincent Browne (born 17 July 1944) is an Irish print and broadcast journalist.

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm_Tóibín

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