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Colm Tóibín

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Colm Tóibín

Born May 30, 1955 · Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland (age 71)

Colm Tóibín (/ˈkʌləm toʊˈbiːn/ KUL-əm toh-BEEN, Irish: [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, The South, was published in 1990. The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Master (a fictionalised version of the inner life of Henry James) was also shortlisted fo…

Known For

BrooklynBrooklyn · 2015
Brooklyn
★ 7.32015
MovieDramaHistory
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Return to MontaukReturn to Montauk · 2017
Return to Montauk
★ 5.62017
MovieDramaRomance
Author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he encounters the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together, seventeen years have passed. Can there be a future for their past?
A Long Winter
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A Long Winter · 2026
A Long Winter
2026
MovieDrama
High in the mountains, autumn comes to an end and a family prepares for the long winter ahead.
A SongA Song · 2025
A Song
2025
MovieDrama
Music teacher Noel is reunited briefly with his estranged mother during a local trad session. He must navigate his complicated past alongside his connection with new-found love, James.
The Blackwater LightshipThe Blackwater Lightship · 2004
The Blackwater Lightship
★ 6.12004
MovieDrama
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
UntameableUntameable · 2023
Untameable
2023
MovieDocumentary
Exploring the Nobel Prize winning 'bog poems' of Seamus Heaney and the wild Irish bog landscape. Written by novelist Colm Tóibín, the film features poem readings by Michelle Fairley and is narrated by Oscar nominated actor Ciarán Hinds.
Pale SisterPale Sister · 2021
Pale Sister
2021
MovieDrama
Written by Colm Toibin, Pale Sister is a powerful retelling of the classic tale of Antigone. Lisa Dwan stars in a tour-de-force performance directed by Sir Trevor Nunn.
Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted IrelandJack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland · 2021
Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland
2021
MovieDocumentary
A revelatory, biographical outline of the life and times of Ireland's greatest painter, Jack B. Yeats

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