Colm Tóibín
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Featured Article: Standout Contemporary Irish Authors You Should Give a Listen
Ireland may be a small country, but it's brimming with talent. Just listen to some of these popular contemporary Irish authors and see if you're not impressed with what this North Atlantic island has to offer to the literary community. Winning prestigious awards and topping best seller lists, today’s Ireland-born-and-bred authors are making a big impression on the literary world. Here are some contemporary Irish authors you should listen to now.
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Brooklyn
- A Novel
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Saoirse Ronan
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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Colm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—also an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture—is about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s.
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Human frailty 
- By Monte on 11-08-24
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Brooklyn
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Saoirse Ronan
- Series: Eilis Lacey, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-22-24
- Language: English
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Long Island
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis is now forty with two teenage children. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades.
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Splendid! But…
- By Tallulah on 05-22-24
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Long Island
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Series: Eilis Lacey, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 05-07-24
- Language: English
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Brooklyn
- Eilis Lacey, Book 1
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Saoirse Ronan
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter.
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Brooklyn
- Eilis Lacey, Book 1
- Narrated by: Saoirse Ronan
- Series: Eilis Lacey, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-17-24
- Language: English
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Brooklyn
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Saoirse Ronan
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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In a small town in 1950s Ireland Eilis Lacey is one among many women of her generation who cannot find work at home. So, when a job is offered in America, she knows she must leave.
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Brooklyn
- Narrated by: Saoirse Ronan
- Series: Eilis Lacey, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-17-24
- Language: English
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The Magician
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
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The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction....
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Author of interesting and compelling books made into a compelling character
- By Viktors on 05-21-22
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The Magician
- Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery
- Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-23-21
- Language: English
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Mothers and Sons
- Stories
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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This beautifully written, intensely intimate collection explores a subject of nearly universal experience: the psychological push and pull between a mother and a son....
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Good Reader, Odd Endings
- By Deborah on 06-11-08
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Mothers and Sons
- Stories
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-31-07
- Language: English
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The Empty Family
- Stories
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Colm Toibin, Jeff Woodman, Alma Cuervo, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm Tibn delineates with a tender and unique sensibility, lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals often willingly cast adrift from their history....
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Love, Loss, and Longing
- By Cariola on 01-02-12
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The Empty Family
- Stories
- Narrated by: Colm Toibin, Jeff Woodman, Alma Cuervo, Piter Marek, Terry Donnelly, John Keating, Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-04-11
- Language: English
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Long Island
- A Novel
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes....
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No Emotions
- By barbara parker on 08-15-24
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Long Island
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-07-24
- Language: English
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Colm Toibin
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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From Colm Tóibín, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives and work of three men - William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus Joyce - and the complicated, influential relationships they had with their complicated sons....
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Eminently re-readable
- By Ellen-A on 01-02-19
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- Narrated by: Colm Toibin
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-30-18
- Language: English
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A Guest at the Feast
- Essays
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Colm Toibin
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature....
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Excellent writing and interesting insights.
- By Tom on 02-11-24
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A Guest at the Feast
- Essays
- Narrated by: Colm Toibin
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-17-23
- Language: English
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The Testament of Mary
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
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Meryl Streep’s performance of Colm Tóibín's acclaimed portrait of Mary is hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “an ideal audiobook"....
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hated it
- By bibliophile on 06-14-14
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The Testament of Mary
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-10-13
- Language: English
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The South
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Terry Donnelly
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter....
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Waste of time
- By K on 10-11-19
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The South
- Narrated by: Terry Donnelly
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 12-04-12
- Language: English
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The Heather Blazing
- A Novel
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings....
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A Quiet but Lovely Story
- By Cariola on 03-29-13
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The Heather Blazing
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-04-12
- Language: English
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House of Names
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson, Pippa Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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"I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins Clytemnestra's tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city....
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Power. Control. Restraint.
- By David on 06-27-17
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House of Names
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson, Pippa Nixon
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 05-09-17
- Language: English
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The Shortest Day
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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During the winter solstice, on the shortest day and longest night of the year, the ancient burial chamber at Newgrange is empowered. Its mystifying source is a haunting tale told by locals....
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Terrible
- By Amazon Customer on 05-17-23
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The Shortest Day
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 11-03-20
- Language: English
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Long Island
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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In Colm Tóibín's masterful new novel, we are reunited with Eilis Lacey, the heroine of Brooklyn, twenty years on, in the 1970s, living with her husband, Tony Fiorello, and her children in a house in Long Island, rather too close to her Fiorello in-laws....
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Such observation!
- By MelissaF on 07-10-24
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Long Island
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Series: Eilis Lacey, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 05-23-24
- Language: English
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Nora Webster: A Novel
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
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Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born....
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Contrived & Overreaching
- By Sara on 12-13-15
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Nora Webster: A Novel
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 10-07-14
- Language: English
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On the Couch
- Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
- By: Siri Hustvedt, Andre Aciman, Jennifer Finney Boylan, and others
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman, Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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Filled with insights, provocation, and humor, On the Couch offers an original and nuanced portrait of Freud as a complex figure who, for all his flaws, forever changed how we see ourselves and the world.
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On the Couch
- Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman, Perry Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 05-14-24
- Language: English
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Long Island
- By: Colm Tóibín
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- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighbouring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. One day, an Irishman comes to the door asking for Eilis by name.
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Riveting
- By Jane F. Clifton on 06-03-24
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Long Island
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Series: Eilis Lacey, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-30-24
- Language: English
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New Ways to Kill Your Mother
- Writers and Their Families
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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In a brilliant, nuanced, and wholly original collection of essays, the best-selling and award-winning author offers a fascinating exploration of famous writers’ relationships to their families and their work....
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A Literary Box of Chocolates
- By Cariola on 11-02-13
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New Ways to Kill Your Mother
- Writers and Their Families
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 06-12-12
- Language: English
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