Brooklyn

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novel by Tóibín

  • Colm Tóibín
    In Colm Tóibín: Novels

    …adapted into a critically acclaimed film (2015) starring Saoirse Ronan, with a screenplay by Nick Hornby. A love story set within the landscape of Irish migration to the United States in the 1950s, it was inspired by a piece of local gossip that Tóibín overheard as a child, about a…

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role of Ronan

  • Saoirse Ronan
    In Saoirse Ronan

    …in the lead role in Brooklyn (2015)—based on Colm Tóibín’s lyrical novel about a young Irish woman who emigrates to Brooklyn and is then called home to Ireland—was evocative and absorbing and earned her a best-actress Oscar nomination. She made her Broadway debut in 2016, starring in an acclaimed production…

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screenplay by Hornby

  • In Nick Hornby

    …the Pacific Crest Trail, and Brooklyn (2015), an adaptation of Colm Toibin’s novel about the romantic entanglements of a young Irish immigrant to the United States. His work on the latter film earned Hornby his second Oscar nomination.

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