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Lisa Dwan is reheasals for Colm Toibin's Pale Sister (Photo: Ros Kavanagh)

Sister Act: Colm Toibin on adapting Antigone for The Gate

Colm Tobin writes for Culture about Pale Sister, his 'taut and truthful' take on the classic Greek tragedy Antigone, which runs at The Gate Theatre from October 31st.

Theatre • 25 Oct 19

Colm Tóibín: essays on the fathers of our great writers

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know by Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín's absorbing set of essays, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce thrive on perspicacity and humour. The out in paperback this week.

Culture • 24 Jul 19

A walk around Dublin with Colm Tóibín

Arena's Kay Sheehy takes a walk around Dublin with author Colm Toibin, to see how the lives of artists, art, memory and place can all come to life on a few specific streets in the capital.

Books • 10 Dec 18

Colm Tóibín: an interesting vantage point from which to view an illustrious trio and their fathers

Reviewed: Colm Tóibín's Mad, Bad, Dangerous to know

Colm Tóibín weaves his personal Dublin experience through four decades into engaging essays on the fathers of Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and James Joyce.

Book Review • 09 Nov 18

An exceptional feast of fine fiction this summer to choose from, everything from Rachel Cusk's Kudos to Rebecca O'Connor's much-anticipated debut.

16 essential summer reads - once more unto the beach

Your holiday reading list sorted, with new novels from Emer Martin, Rebecca O'Connor, Caoilinn Hughes and a glorious reprint from the pen of the Catalan writer Mercé Roderardo.

Books • 14 Jun 18

Colm Tóibín: House of Names out now in paperback

Reviewed: House of Names by Colm Tóibín

In previous novels such as Brooklyn and Nora Webster, Colm Tóibín found the extraordinary in what might have remained ordinary, or at least hidden. In House of Names, the private keeps breaking out and fouling the public realm.

Books • 23 Apr 18

Marian Keyes: winner of the Popular Fiction award for The Break, pictured at this year's Bord Gáis Energy Book awards

The 20 Best Books of 2017 - recommended reads to give and receive

Your Christmas reading started and (book) ended! Here are the books that are worth your while during those occasional Xmas breaks from the tidal wave of telly.

Books • 13 Dec 17

Man Booker International Prize-winning author László Krasznahorkai

Reviewed: The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai

The narrator of László Krasznahorkai's The World Goes On is pathologically absorbed by the philosophical background to his 21 fables. And if it's not that, then the telling of the tales seems to be the point rather than the tales themselves.

Books • 04 Dec 17

Death-dealing and power mongering in Mycenae: Colm Tóibín's House of Names.

A House of Blood: Colm Tóíbín unleashes bloodthirsty tale

Colm Tóibín's new novel, House of Names depicts the house of Agamemnon as it is torn apart by violence. Paddy Kehoe met the author to discuss his reinvention of the Greek myth.

Books • 13 Jun 17

Reviewed: Colm Tóibín's House of Names

In Brooklyn and Nora Webster, Colm Tóibín found the extraordinary in what might have remained ordinary, or at least hidden, if there had been no one to tell the story. In House of Names, the private keeps breaking out and fouling the public realm.

Books • 18 May 17

Sally Rooney - everybody's talking about her novel Conversations With Friends.

International Literature Festival Dublin - 4 must-sees

RTÉ Culture has selected a quartet of highlights from the year's most exciting literary bash.