Knowing the value of home ahead of Lismore Immrama Festival of Travel Writing
It takes quite the leap of imagination to envisage one of Ireland’s greatest writers pulling pints behind a hotel bar.
But Colm Tóibín’s stint working in a seaside resort was more fruitful than most summer jobs. When the 17-year-old wasn’t on duty in the Grand Hotel in Tramore, he was reading Ernest Hemingway on the beach.
