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, … Television • 14 Jun
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 … 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 … Television • 21 Oct 21
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 … 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 … 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 … Television • 30 Mar 21
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
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 … Music • 16 Apr 19
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 … Movie • 02 Apr 18
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 … movie review • 06 Oct 17
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
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 … Entertainment • 01 Nov 16
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 … Books • 21 Sep 16
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 … Entertainment • 27 Aug 16
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 … Book Reviews • 19 Aug 16
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 … Entertainment • 02 Apr 16
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 … Entertainment • 28 Feb 16
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 … Entertainment • 27 Feb 16
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 … Entertainment • 09 Feb 16
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 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 … Entertainment • 07 Oct 15
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 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 … Entertainment • 29 Jul 15
