Friday 23 May 2025
8-9pm
Event Code: 146
This event also takes place on Friday 23 May, 4–5pm.
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Colm Tóibín: From Brooklyn to Long Island (2nd event)
Colm Tóibín: From Brooklyn to Long Island (2nd event)
After selling out his first solo event, Colm Tóibín returns for a second session
Colm Tóibín returns to the world of Brooklyn – adapted into a BAFTA- and Oscar-nominated film starring Saoirse Ronan – with the long-awaited sequel, Long Island.
Set 20 years after Rose Lacey’s death, Long Island follows Eilis Lacey after an unknown Irishman unexpectedly brings a baby into her family’s midst. Full of longing and regret, the book exhibits the hallmarks of a master storyteller’s restraint and Colm’s customary wit.
In conversation with Kate Evans (ABC Radio National’s The Bookshelf), Colm discusses his latest portrait of the people of picturesque Enniscorthy, which is being heralded as his best work yet.
Set 20 years after Rose Lacey’s death, Long Island follows Eilis Lacey after an unknown Irishman unexpectedly brings a baby into her family’s midst. Full of longing and regret, the book exhibits the hallmarks of a master storyteller’s restraint and Colm’s customary wit.
In conversation with Kate Evans (ABC Radio National’s The Bookshelf), Colm discusses his latest portrait of the people of picturesque Enniscorthy, which is being heralded as his best work yet.
“Deeply felt but resolutely unsentimental… Tóibín uses masterly restraint to dramatize how lives can be destabilized by desire.”
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Colm Tóibín appears thanks to the support of Rosie Williams and John Grill AO.
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