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Colm Toibin wins Rathbones Folio Prize after cancer diagnosis during writing

Irish novelist Colm Toibin has been announced as the winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize for 2022 for his novel The Magician. Toibin, 66, has been awarded the £30,000 prize money for the first time after previously being nominated for the prize in ...

22 Mar 2022 at 20:55

Scotland

Four-book shortlist revealed for Walter Scott Prize For Historical Fiction

The judges of the Walter Scott Prize For Historical Fiction have announced the shortlist of four books going forward for the £25,000 writing prize. Featuring two Scots, an Irishman and an Irish-Trinidadian, the shortlist is the first in the ...

12 Apr 2022 at 10:25

Entertainment

Shortlist unveiled for £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize

Irish author Colm Toibin, Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut and debut novelist Natasha Brown are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize. Four women and four men are in contention for the 2022 award – ...

09 Feb 2022 at 20:55

News

Sinead O’Connor fans gather to sing Nothing Compares 2 U in Dublin tribute

Fans of Sinead O’Connor sang her most famous song at a poignant gathering in Dublin to pay tribute to the late star. Around 100 people joined together to sing Nothing Compares 2 U at the event on Sunday afternoon. O’Connor, who died ...

30 Jul 2023 at 17:31

News

Sinead O’Connor sang with ‘sense of mission’ against injustices, Toibin says

Sinead O’Connor sang with a “sense of mission” to speak out against injustices, the Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Toibin has said. The Irish singer, who died this week aged 56, was propelled to international stardom in 1990 with ...

30 Jul 2023 at 13:20

Edna O’Brien remembered as ‘brave writer’

Tributes have continued for acclaimed Irish novelist Edna O’Brien following her death at the age of 93. The author died peacefully on Saturday following a long illness, a statement from her agent and publishing house said. ...

29 Jul 2024 at 13:52

Inishowen

Two of Ireland's most celebrated authors to host book club in Donegal

Two of Ireland's most celebrated authors will host a book club in Donegal this month. The Laureate for Irish Fiction, Colm Tóibín, will present the monthly Art of Reading Book Club at Carndonagh Library on Tuesday August ...

06 Aug 2024 at 17:33

Life

5 new books to read this week

Colm Tóibín is back with his long-awaited follow-up to Brooklyn… Fiction 1. Long Island by Colm Tóibín is published in hardback by Picador, priced £20 (ebook £9.99). Available May 23 ‘He wanted to ask her the reason she ...

15 May 2024 at 08:43

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