To adapt a saying of the boxer Tyson Fury, you can take a writer out of Ireland but you can’t take Ireland out of the writer. Or so The News From Dublin, the new volume of Colm Tóibín’s short fiction, will suggest to readers. Tóibín, a Wexford-born expatriate, has never lost sight of certain themes and concerns. In the nine tales collected here, characters who live in Ireland or have moved abroad grapple with how to cross sectarian, class, and ideological gulfs and navigate firestorms of hate and strife without compromising their principles or giving in to cowardice and sycophancy.