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Colm Toibin on James Joyce's Ulysses

Writing by Colm Toibin

2001


'Love in a Dark Time': review of Holland and Hart-Davis eds., The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, in London Review of Books Vol 23, No 8, April 19 2001, pp.11-17.
'MY MANHATTAN; Mais Non! Forte, Please! Ay-Yi-Yi!' in The New York Times April 13, 2001
Introduction to James Baldwin's novel Another Country, Penguin Books, 2001
'The Henry James of Harlem: James Baldwin's struggles' in The Guardian September 14, 2001

2000


'An Unconditional Love' in Sunday Independent, January 16. 2000
'Gaelic Gloom': Review of 'Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist' by Denis Sampson in London Review of Books 22.15, pp. 3-8
'Issues of Truth and Invention': Review of 'The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart' edited by Brendan Barrington in London Review of Books 23.01, pp. 3-11
'The Day Poetry Came Alive' in Irish Times December 9, 2000
'Bacon's Arrow' in The Dublin Review no.1 Winter 2000-1, pp17-41

1999


'An Isle of Two Minds Seeks a Language of Compromise' in Wasington Post, Sunday 4 April 1999, pB02 (Outlook)
'Roaming the Greenwood' in London Review of Books 21.2
'At Last It's Time to Set Free the Cutback Generation' in Sunday Times11 April, 1999
'Plumb loco' in The Irish Times Saturday April 17 1999
    Conor McCarthy's reply to 'Plumb Loco' in Irish Times 28 April 1999
Tóibín on Ulysses in 'That Blooming Book' by Rosita Boland in The Irish Times on Bloomsday (16 June) 1999
My Media in The Guardian, 27 September 1999
'What is you nation if I may ask?': Review of 'Jews in 2oth-Century Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust' by Dermot Keogh.in London Review of Books 21.19 pp37-39
'Writer in Residence: Colm Toibin's Dublin' at Planet
'I Apologise - Now Would All Other Experts Do the Same' in Sunday Independent, October 10, 1999
'In 20 years' time we will all know that trees have more rights than cars' in Sunday Independent, December 19, 1999

1998


'The Great Irish Famine' in London Review of Books 20.15
'The People's Mouth' - reply to Tóibín by David Craig in London Review of Books 20.16
'Have You Seen these Children' in Washington Post, Sunday 11 January 1998, pX08 (Book World)
'A Letter from Dublin' in Washington Post, Sunday 19 April 1998, pX05 (Book World).
'On James Joyce's Ulysses' in Waterstones' Guide to Irish Books (Edited by Cormac Kinsella), Waterstones: Brentford 1998, ISBN 1 902603 05 2
'On the Great Irish Famine. (Feature)' in London Review of Books 20.15 [corres. 20.16]

1997


'Heaven's Coast: A Memoir. Doty, Mark;' in London Review of Books 19.3
'Atlantis. Doty, Mark;' in London Review of Books 19.3
'This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death. Brodkey, Harold;' in London Review of Books 19.3
'PWA: Looking Aids in the Face. Moore, Oscar' in London Review of Books 19.3
'Pilgrimage Through Spain' in Washington Post, Sunday 30 March 1997, pX01 (Book World)
'The Pluck of the Irish' in New Yorker, 6 January 1997, vol. 72, Issue 41, p25
'Write-in Candidate' in New Yorker (Europe Issue), vol. 73, Issue 10, p56 (on Seamus Heaney)
'He'll have brought it on himself' Review of "Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Writing. Editor: Eibhear Walshe and "Goodbye to Catholic Ireland" by Mary Kenny in London Review of Books19.10
    Correspondence in London Review of Books[corres. 19.13]
'COMO INVENTAR LECTORES', in La Jornada Semanal, 14 de septiembre de 1997 ( Spanish)
'A LOOK AT... Peace Prospects in Northern Ireland: What Derry and I have both Outgrown' in Washington Post, 16 November 1997, pC03 (Outlook)
'Roger Casement's Diaries. 1910: The Black and the White. Editor: Sawyer, Roger;' in London Review of Books 19.19
'The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement. Editor: Mitchell, Angus' in London Review of Books [corres. 19.21, 20.01]

1996


'Lighting the Seeds: Colm Toibin reads Famous Seamus's first collection of poems since he was awarded the Nobel Prize' in The Observer 5 May 1996
'Diary. [life in a Pyrenean village, and on Barcelona's Ramblas]" in London Review of Books 16.1
'How many nipples had Graham Greene?' [Greene's letters] (Feature)in London Review of Books 16.11
'Profane Friendship. Brodkey, H'"in London Review of Books 16.11
'One Art: The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Bishop. Editor: Giroux, R' in London Review of Books 16.15.
'Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs and an Interview. Gunn, T.' in London Review of Books 17.8
'On (Not) Saying What you Mean. [language and social change in Ireland] (Feature)' in London Review of Books 17.23
'Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation. Kiberd, D.' in London Review of Books 18.8
'Thomas Mann: A Biography. Hayman, R.;' in London Review of Books 18.17
'Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature. Heilbut, A.;' in London Review of Books 18.17
'Thomas Mann: A Life. Prater, D.' in London Review of Books 18.17
'Art and life through red-tinted spectacles' (Review of Photocopies by John Berger) in The Observer 21 July 1996, p15
'A Basque Terrorist's Welcome to the Hotel Catalonia' (Review of The Lone Man by Bernardo Atxaga) in The Observer, August 4, 1996, p15

1994

'Worse in Wicklow' - review of Ireland Today: Anatomy of a changing state, by Gemma Hussey in Times Literary Supplement, 1 April 1994, Issue 4748, p22
'We all have our own troubles' (written with Sandra Brown) in New Statesman & Society, 8 July 1994, Vol. 7 Issue 310, pXviii

1995

'Dublin's Epiphany" in The New Yorker, April 3, 1995, pp 45-53.
'Dream of Fair to Middling Women. Beckett, S. Editors: O'Brien, E. and Fournier, E." in London Review of Books 15.7
'Haughey: His Life and Unlucky Deeds. Arnold, B." in London Review of Books 15.11
'New Ways of Killing Your Father'. A review of 'Paddy and Mr. Punch: Connections in Irish and English History' by R.F. Foster in London Review of Books 15.22., p4-6 also published in 'New Ways to Kill Your Father: Historical Revisionism' in Ireland: Towards New Identities?, (eds. Karl-Heinz Westarp & Michael Böss), Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1998, pp 28-36
'Acting Between The Lines - The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980-1984' in The Times Literary Supplement 1995, issue 4804, pp10-11
'Field Days Idea of Ireland' -Response to Colm Toibin' in The Times Literary Supplement 1995, issue 4810, p 19
'Ancestral Voices - Religion and Nationalism in Ireland - Conor Cruise O'Brien' in New York Times Book Review, Dec 31 1995, p7

1993

'Travel: Miracles in stone: Great Civilizations of the World: 1 Neolitihic Europe." in The (London) Independent on Sunday, January 3 1993
'Another Celtic Renaissance" in Washington Post, Sunday 7 Febuary 1993, pX15 (Book World)
'A natural exile' - review of The Edge of The City: A scrapbook, 1976-91, by Desmond Hogan in Times Literary Supplement, 1 October 1993, Issue 4722, p13
'Damaged children' - review of May the Lord in His Mercy Be Kind to Belfast, by Tony Parker in Times Literary Supplement, 12 November 1993, Issue 4728, p29
'A member of Fine Gael' - review of The Polling of the Dead, by John Kelly in Times Literary Supplement, 26 November 1993, Issue 4730, p21

1992

'Homage to Catalonia" in Wasington Post, 1 March 1992, pX01 (Book World)
'Tin Ear in Erin Bradbury's Irish Tales from 'Moby Dick' Days" in Wasington Post, 28 May 1992, p D02 (Style)
'Last years in a wet country' a review of the novel The Testament of Spenser, by George MacBeth in Times Literary Supplement, 13 November 1992, issue 4676, p19

1991

'Martyrs and Metaphors" in Letters from a New Island (ed. Dermot Bolger), Dublin: The Raven Art Press,1991, pp. 44-55.(originally published on its own as a pamphlet)

1987

'Thomas Murphy's Volcanic Ireland" in Irish University Reveiw, Spring 1987, Dublin: 1987, pp 24-30