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Colm Tóibín
1955 -

Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet.

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History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does. While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self...
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