Un homme se rend d'Enniscorthy à Dublin pour implorer le ministre de la Santé de lui accorder une faveur particulière. Une jeune femme est enceinte pendant la guerre civile espagnole. Un travailleur sans papiers se retrouve contraint de vivre illégalement et doit quitter San Francisco, laissant derrière lui son enfant, après trente ans passés en Amérique.

The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm Tóibín delves into the days and nights of those living far from home: lives of great longing, at a great distance from past lives and past selves. A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in the First World War. An Irishman seeks anonymity in Barcelona, haunted by crimes he has committed. A man goes to Dublin from Enniscorthy to implore the Minister for Health for a special favour. A young woman is pregnant during the Spanish Civil War. An undocumented worker finds himself living an illegal life and must leave San Francisco, and his child, after thirty years in America.