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What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Thursday

Ciarán Hinds narrates Colm Tóibín's exploration of Ireland's boglands in Untameable, Bear Grylls goes tracing his ancestry, Black Mirror is back for a fith season, and for Trekkies there's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . . .

Television • 14 Jun 23

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Thursday

Latest Dan Brown adaptation The Lost Symbol begins, It's a Park's Life returns, there's a documentary about eating disorders among Irish men, and the finale of The LOng Call . . .

Television • 18 Nov 21

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Thursday

Colm Tóibín looks at the legacy of Jack B Yeats in The Man Who Painted Ireland, there's Sex, Love & Goop with Gwyneth Paltrow, Javier Bardem - and what looks like a woodworker version of Bake Off . . .

Television • 21 Oct 21

John Crowley - Also serving as one of the executive producers on Life After Life

Brooklyn director John Crowley films another bestseller

Brooklyn director John Crowley has begun filming Life After Life, a BBC One adaptation of the Kate Atkinson novel of the same name.

Television • 21 Apr 21

What's on? 10 top telly tips for Monday April 19

Tonight's top TV tips include a profile of writer Colm Tóibín, Kate Winslet stars in new drama Mare of Easttown, there's a documentary about Derry City, and Mark Kermode takes a look at the Oscars . . .

Television • 19 Apr 21

Colm Tóibín on the writer's struggle: 'No one cares'

Colm Tóibín - widely regarded as one of the world's greatest living novelists - is the subject of a landmark documentary on RTÉ One on Monday night.

Television • 19 Apr 21

What's on? 10 top telly tips for Tuesday March 30

Tonight's top TV tips include season four of The Syndicate, The final qualifying round of Home of the Year, the inaugural RTS Ireland Television Awards and Julian Fellows' Belgravia . . .

Television • 30 Mar 21

Truman Capote: the "candied tarantula" from Louisiana

The Capote Tapes: welcome to the real Truman Show

This new documentary on the great American novelist is great fun. Maybe he wasn't a literary Messiah but he was a very naughty boy

Movies • 31 Jan 21

U2 on the programme Looking On - Now available to watch on the IFI Player

Rare U2 in Dublin footage goes online for first time

In a treat for U2 fans, previously unreleased footage of the band performing on a rooftop on Sheriff Street in Dublin in 1982 is now available to watch for the first time on the Irish Film Institute Player.

Music • 16 Apr 19

Saoirse Ronan as Eilís Lacey in Brooklyn

Brooklyn writer Tóibín "tears up" at film's ending

Brooklyn author Colm Tóibín admits that he "tears up" watching the final scene in the film adaptation of the book, which was devised as a departure from the novel's conclusion by screen-writer, Nick Hornby.

Movie • 02 Apr 18

Return to Montauk: brilliant performances from Stellan Skarsgård and Nina Hoss.

Two lovers reunite in the exquisite Return to Montauk

With veteran German director Volker Schlöndorff as director - and co-writer with Colm Tóibín - Return to Montauk was bound to be interesting at the very least. It is in fact a captivating, exquisitely-directed film of the highest calibre.

movie review • 06 Oct 17

John Crowley to direct Midwinter Break, based on Bernard MacLaverty's novel

Brooklyn's John Crowley to direct Midwinter Break

It has just been revealed that Brooklyn director John Crowley will direct a big-screen adaptation of acclaimed Belfast-born writer Bernard MacLaverty's just-published novel Midwinter Break.

john crowley • 12 Oct 17

Colm Toibín - from 1950s Brooklyn to Ancient Greece

Tóibín novel House of Names set in ancient Greece

The story of Clytemnestra as depicted in Colm Toibín's fictional treatment in the House of Names is described as `spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling.'

Entertainment • 01 Nov 16

John Bowman: his new work assembles astute and often colourful reflections on key events and themes from the past 100 years, many from the man and woman in the street.

John Bowman – Ireland The Autobiography

One Hundred Years in the Life of the Nation, Told by its People is the matter of John Bowman’s new book which assembles eye-witness accounts and reportage to construct a fascinating record of a century of change.

Books • 21 Sep 16

Oscar Wilde: Tóibín follows in his footsteps at Reading

Tóibín to read De Profundis at Reading Jail

In October, author Colm Tóibín will read Oscar Wilde's De Profundis in its entirely at Reading Jail, where the playwright and writer Oscar Wilde once served a notorious two-year prison sentence.

Entertainment • 27 Aug 16

As announced on June 9, Akhil Sharma won this year's €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award, formerly the IMPAC. The book took 13 years to complete.

Akhil Sharma - Family Life

Akhil Sharma’s Family Life surely deserves its recent International Dublin Literary Award, being a deeply affecting story of how an Indian family deals with their adopted USA and the pivotal event which occurs following their arrival in the late 1970s.

Book Reviews • 19 Aug 16

Colm Tóibín with Nick Hornby pictured at last year's London Film Festival

Tóibín would not see Nora Webster as film like Brooklyn

Author Colm Tóibín has said that his novel Nora Webster would need a different approach to Brooklyn if it were to be made into a film.

Entertainment • 02 Apr 16

Emma Donoghue: her short story, Night Vision has been adapted for the stage in a San Francisco show as Oscar fever hots up.

Donoghue, Tóibín stories dramatised in San Francisco

San Francisco-based company Word for Word have adapted the short stories, Night Vision, by Emma Donoghue and Silence by Colm Tóibín at the city's Z Below Theater.

Entertainment • 28 Feb 16

Brooklyn Director John Crowley, producers Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey with screen-writer Nick Hornby at the EE British Academy Film Awards on February 14.

Brooklyn producer picked the novel because of mother

Brooklyn co-producer Finola Dwyer became attracted to adapting Colm Tóibín’s novel of the same name because it resonated with her own family. Dwyer’s mother travelled from Ireland to New Zealand around the time the fictional Eilis goes to NY.

Entertainment • 27 Feb 16

Colm Tóibín: enters the US debate on migrants

Tóibín: "Every migrant has a story to tell"

Brooklyn author Colm Tóibín has told an audience at New York’s United Nations bookshop that “every migrant has a story to tell.”

Entertainment • 15 Feb 16

Brooklyn author praises "wonderfully expressive" Ronan

Colm Tóibín has praised Saoirse Ronan's performance in the big screen adaptation of his novel Brooklyn saying he enjoyed observing the "wonderfully expressive" Oscar nominee at work.

Entertainment • 09 Feb 16

Emory Cohen and Saoirse Ronan in the film adaptation of Brooklyn

Tóibín praises Brooklyn for its very pure emotion

Author Colm Tóibín has praised the movie adaptation of his novel Brooklyn as "very pure without being sentimental."

Entertainment • 17 Oct 15

Colm Tóibín only started reading at nine years of age

Colm Tóibín says he couldn't read until aged nine

Proving that being a late bloomer often has advantages, Wexford-born author Colm Tóibín has revealed that he could not read until he was nine years of age.

Entertainment • 07 Oct 15

Colm Tóibín reveals that he lives near 'a large building' where asylum seekers are held in Dublin

Tóibín wants Ireland to follow Germany's lead

Irish author Colm Tóibín has said he wishes that Ireland would follow Germany’s lead in dealing with the Syrian refugee crisis.

Entertainment • 12 Sep 15

Anne Enright has been included on the longlist for this year's Man Booker Prize

Anne Enright makes Man Booker Longlist

Irish author and Laureate for Fiction Anne Enright has been included in the longlist for this year's Man Booker prize for her novel The Green Road.

Entertainment • 29 Jul 15