Matt Kafoury
Events & FestivalsDowntown Brooklyn
The Center for Fiction: Irish Storytelling with Colm Tóibín
Apr 21, 2026
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Colm Tóibín, the award-winning author of Brooklyn and Long Island, visits The Center or Fiction to celebrate and evening of Irish short stories. stories written by himself and the late, under-recognized Irish American author, Mary Lavin. His newest collection, The News from Dublin, marks a long-anticipated return to short fiction. Tóibín will also introduce An Arrow in Flight, a curated selection of stories by Mary Lavin, the Irish-American writer once hailed as a master in the lineage of Chekhov and Wharton. Join Tóibín as he reflects on the intimacy, rigor and enduring power of the short story and on the voices, past and present, that continue to shape Irish literature.
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