Colm Tóibín

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1,118 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 10 Jun

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Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud · Colm Tóibín · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah.

I mean, for the serious part of your life,

I suppose, under part.

It wasn't string.

But it was, but in all the surround was all string.

You know, a lot of people had string underpants in Enniscorthy.

I would see circa 1967, 68, 69.

And, but also the other thing was a cravat.

They were also very fashionable for a while.

All those things were awful.

Yeah, no, so absolutely never anything nice.

I wouldn't put it like that.

But my father, the ruling party in Ireland really throughout the independence period has been a party called Fianna Fáil.

And there's still, the prime minister now is from that party.

Yeah.

It came into power in 1932.

And my father was director of elections from that party for the

for the minister who was the minister for health and then the minister for finance.

And so my first election that I worked on was 1964 when I was nine.

Wow.

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