Previous Engagements

February

4: On CBS television in US; first showing of the movie of 'The Blackwater Lightship' starring Angela Lansbury, Dianne Wiest and Gina McKee.

25: Opening of 'Blue', an exhibition curated by Colm Tóibin at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, Dublin.

March

19: Publication of Colm Toibin's fifth novel 'The Master' (Picador), to be published in Australia in April, US and Canada in June.

April

20: Purcell Room, South Bank, London, with Alan Hollinghurst

May

Saturday 8 May: Brighton Festival, 7.30pm, with Graham Robb

Monday 10 May: Giovanni's Room, Philadelphia

Tuesday 11 May: Philadelphia Public Library, with James Kelman

Tuesday 18 May: 192 Books, 192 10 th Avenue, New York

Wednesday 19 May: New York Public Library, with Francisco Goldman

Friday/ Saturday 14 and 15 May: Ottawa

Sunday 16 May: Toronto

Wednesday 26 May: Rocky Sullivan's, New York

Thursday 27 May: Lenox Hill, 1018 Lexington Avenue, New York

August

16: Opening at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin, first play, 'Beauty in a Broken Place'.
Tour 2004

Wednesday 25th

6.00pm NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIAIntroduction by the Director Dr Brian Kennedy

Thursday 26th

UNVEILING OF JAMES JOYCE SEAT. ( Radio National Breakfast Prog will be interviewing Colm on site)

6.30 READERS FEAST BOOKSHOP, Readers Feast bookshopMidtown Plaza Melbourne

Friday 27th

4.00pm Festival Session - Pure Imagination - Colm Toibin, Rodney Hall and Robyn Arianrhod discuss the power of pure imagination.

Saturday 28th

12.00 Melbourne - Spotlight on Colm Toibin With Jason Steger; Literary Editor of The Age.( This session will be recorded by Jill Kitson for ABC Radio National ‘Book Talk’ Prog) Merlyn Theatre CUB Malthouse113 Sturt StSouth Melbourne
4.0pm 6.00pm

April - June

Thursday 21 April: Cork City of Culture, with Victor Aldea Lorente

Saturday 23 April: Los Angeles Times Fiction Panel, 'Talking Fiction'
with
Russell Banks, Alice Hoffman and William Vollman at 10 am at Moore 100

Sunday 24 April: L A Times Book Fair; signing at Borders

Thursday 28 April: New York, reading, Lambda Award Finalists, 208 W
13rd
Street, 7pm

Saturday 30 April: New Haven Public Library, with Francine Prose, 6.30

May 4: San Francisco, Books Inc, 2275 Market Street, 7.30

May 4: San Francisco, Wilde Oscar's Pub, 1900 Folsom Street, 9.30

May 5: Lamba Finalists Reading, Washington DC

May 13: Aberdeen, Scotland, reading with Andrew O'Hagan, 7.30

May 17: Sao Paolo, Brazil, Lecture + signing at Casa do Saber, 8pm

May 19: Rio de Janeiro, Signing at La Travessa Bookshop, 9.30pm

May 20: Rio Book Fair, Lecture, 1pm

June 28: Florence, Italy, with Anita Desai