Colm Tóibín
speaker
1,118 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Colm Tóibín’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She was very lucky.
Her hair had stayed that color all her life.
Really?
Your Irish grandmother?
Your other grandmother sounds like an item.
Yeah, there's a wonderful painting where he paints her with her hands like this.
And I found that very interesting, you know, as to how you think about your mother.
And it's very tender, and you see her very vulnerable.
I thought that was a really good painting.
Yeah, both of my brothers died.
My younger one, I've never, you know, you never, I don't know what should happen.
But there's no, there's nothing you can do to bring him back.
And he died on a Saturday night.
Sometimes it hits me harder on a Saturday night.
When it's coming to Saturday night, it comes into my mind.
And, you know, it's about, it's in Henry James where he says about, I think it's Millie Thiel in The Wings of the Dove, she would have given anything to have lived.
Yeah.
And he had bought a house in South Wexford.
And it was, I mean, honestly, the big debates we have take up so much time.
I was arguing that he needed to take out the ceilings and make a big high room, a big high living room.
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