![]() ![]() ![]() His best journalism from this period is collected in The Trial of the General, which includes sections on South America, Africa, Ireland and more. He settled for a while in Argentina, writing about the trial of President Galtieri and other authorities accused of human rights violations. ![]() After leaving the magazine, Tóibín moved to South America. He worked as a journalist, columnist and editor for several Irish papers and magazines from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, gaining an audience through his regular columns in papers like the Dublin Sunday Independent, and ultimately becoming the editor of Magill, Ireland’s leading current affairs magazine, during its heyday from 1982 to 1985. Immediately after college, he moved to Barcelona and taught English for three years before returning to Ireland to begin a career in journalism. In boarding school, he became a voracious reader, and he went on to graduate from University College Dublin. He began writing poetry and stories at the age of 12, soon after the death of his father. Colm Tóibín was born in 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland, the fourth of five children. ![]()
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