id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8051 Colm Tóibín - Wikipedia .html text/html 5026 675 74 Colm Tóibín (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ] KAW-ləm toe-BEAN; born 30 May 1955) FRSL, is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet.[1][2] Tóibín is the author of other non-fiction books: Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border (1994), (reprinted from the 1987 original edition) and The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994). In 2015, ahead of the Marriage Equality referendum, Tóibín delivered a talk titled "The Embrace of Love: Being Gay in Ireland Now" in Trinity Hall, featuring Roger Casement's diaries, the work of Oscar Wilde, John Broderick and Kate O'Brien, and Senator David Norris's 1980s High Court battles.[23] In the same year, he released On Elizabeth Bishop, a critical study which made The Guardian's Best Books of 2015 list twice.[24] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8051.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8051.txt