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The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon is the national agency for funding, developing and promoting the arts in Ireland.

  1. 28 NOV

    The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 32: ‘Close to Home’ by Michael Magee

    The November Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Michael Magee about his book 'Close to Home'. “Michael Magee’s first novel deals with the Troubles as both legacy and aftermath. At its centre is Sean who has returned to Belfast. The book has been described by The Guardian as ‘a staggeringly humane and tender evocation of class, violence and the challenge of belonging in a world that seems designed to keep you watching from the sidelines.’” — Colm Tóibín Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/

    42 min
  2. The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 33 The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes

    31 OCT

    The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 33 The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes

    The October Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Caoilinn Hughes about her novel ‘The Alternatives’. “Caoilinn Hughes’s novel deals with the lives of four brilliant sisters, lives that have been deeply scarred by the death of their parents. As Hernan Diaz has written, this is ‘a tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species… in a prose full of gorgeous surprises…glows with intelligence, compassion, and beauty.’” — Colm Tóibín Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/

    46 min
  3. The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 32: ‘Prophet Song’ by Paul Lynch

    25 SEPT

    The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 32: ‘Prophet Song’ by Paul Lynch

    “Paul Lynch’s novel, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize, is set in the near future in a real Dublin in which a totalitarian regime has come to power. ‘If there was ever a crucial book for our current times,’ The Guardian has written, ‘it’s Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song.’” Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/

    48 min
  4. The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 31 'The Lonely Sea and Sky' by Dermot Bolger

    28 AUG

    The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 31 'The Lonely Sea and Sky' by Dermot Bolger

    The August Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Dermot Bolger about his novel 'The Lonely Sea and Sky' “The novel tells the story of the rescue by a small Irish boat of 168 German sailors during World War II. The narrator is Jack Roche, a 14-year-old Wexford lad whose father has been killed at sea. Part historical fiction, part coming-ofage narrative, this is a perceptive and exciting novel about life at sea as a way of dramatizing human relations at their most intense.” — Colm Tóibín Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/

    45 min
  5. The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 30 The Coast Road by Alan Murrin

    23 JUL

    The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 30 The Coast Road by Alan Murrin

    “Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story of two women— Izzy and Colette. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children. ‘The last great book I read,’ the actress Gillian Anderson has said. ‘It will no doubt be a bestseller.'" Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/

    38 min
  6. The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 29: ‘Solace’ by Belinda McKeon -

    26 JUN

    The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 29: ‘Solace’ by Belinda McKeon -

    The June Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Belind McKeon about her novel 'Solace' "In her compelling debut novel, Solace,’ Anna Fogarty wrote in The Irish Times in 2011, ‘Belinda McKeon succeeds in subtly reconfiguring and updating the archetypal story of a son’s quarrel with his father. In her hands, it becomes a profound and exacting conjuration with the pyscho-social shifts taking place in contemporary Ireland.” Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/

    39 min
  7. The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 28: ‘Ordinary Human Failings’ by Megan Nolan

    29 MAY

    The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 28: ‘Ordinary Human Failings’ by Megan Nolan

    The May Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Megan Nolan about her novel 'Ordinary Human Failings'. "Megan Nolan’s novel tells the story of the Green family who move from Ireland to London in the early 1990s. 'Where Nolan really excels is in the delineation of complex, sometimes contradictory interior states, the water we all swim in and call "reality",' writes The Financial Times." - Colm Tóibín Megan Nolan was born in 1990 in Waterford, Ireland and is currently based in London. Her essays and reviews have been published by The New York Times, White Review, The Guardian and Frieze amongst others. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2021 and was the recipient of a Betty Trask Award, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second novel, Ordinary Human Failings, was published in 2023 and is shortlisted for the inaugural Nero Book Awards, for fiction and longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/

    38 min
  8. The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 27: ‘Molly Fox’s Birthday’ by Deirdre Madden

    24 APR

    The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 27: ‘Molly Fox’s Birthday’ by Deirdre Madden

    The April Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Deirdre Madden about her novel ‘Molly Fox’s Birthday’. “It is the height of summer, and celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house in Dublin to a friend while she is away performing in New York. Set over a single midsummer’s day, Molly Fox’s Birthday is a mischievous, insightful novel about a turning point - a moment when past and future suddenly appear in a new light. – Colm Tóibín Deirdre Madden is a novelist. She has published eight novels for adults, including Authenticity, Molly Fox’s Birthday, and most recently Time Present and Time Past. She has won many awards for her work, including The Rooney Prize, The Hennessy Award, and The Somerset Maugham Award. For the first of her three novels for children, she won the Eilis Dillon Award. All her work is published by Faber and Faber and has been widely anthologised. Her novels have also been translated into several languages, including French, Italian and German. She studied English at Trinity College Dublin and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. In 1997 she was Writer Fellow at Trinity, and since 2004 she has been teaching Creative Writing to undergraduates and on the MPhil programme in the Oscar Wilde Centre. She is a member of Aosdána Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/

    37 min
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