Rosslare

I had cheap binoculars to watch the ferry from Rosslare and the lighthouse and the odd sailing boat.

The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

I had cheap binoculars to watch the ferry from Rosslare and the lighthouse and the odd sailing boat.

The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

Home also was this room at the top of the house, cut into the roof, a room with a glass door opening onto a tiny balcony where I can stand on a clear night and look up at the stars and see the lights of Rosslare Harbour and the single flashes of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse and the faint, comforting line where the night sky becomes the dark sea.

The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

Home also was this room at the top of the house, cut into the roof, a room with a glass door opening onto a tiny balcony where I can stand on a clear night and look up at the stars and see the lights of Rosslare Harbour and the single flashes of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse and the faint, comforting line where the night sky becomes the dark sea.

The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

I knew he wanted me to move the telescope, to focus now on Rosslare Harbour, on Tuskar Rock, on Raven Point, on the strand at Curracloe, agree with him that they could be seen so clearly even in this faded evening light.

The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

I knew he wanted me to move the telescope, to focus now on Rosslare Harbour, on Tuskar Rock, on Raven Point, on the strand at Curracloe, agree with him that they could be seen so clearly even in this faded evening light.

The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

She had sent Tony a postcard from Cobh saying that she had arrived safely, and had written him a letter from Rosslare describing the journey.

Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009

Jim called on the Saturday and they went to Rosslare and had dinner in the evening in the Strand Hotel.

Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009

All she wanted to do was sleep, even though she had slept well in the hotel in Rosslare Harbour the night before.

Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009

Mrs. Kehoe, who owned the house, was from Wexford town and loved to talk to her about home, about Sunday trips to Curracloe and Rosslare Strand, or hurling matches, or the shops along the Main Street in Wexford town, or characters she remembered.

Brooklyn Colm Tóibín 2009