Fintan O'Toole

We Don't Know Ourselves

A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958

The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritativ...

Critical Moments

Fintan O'Toole on Modern Irish Theatre

Few figures are more respected and quoted internationally than Fintan O'Toole, both as a controversial and provocative political commentator and theat...

The Lie of the Land

Irish Identities

The Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Ireland's fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes ...

Heroic Failure

Brexit and the Politics of Pain

'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read ... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other y...

We Don't Know Ourselves

A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O’Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government—in despair, because all the young people were leav...

The Ex-isle of Erin

One of Ireland's most incisive and provocative commentators, Fintan O'Toole explores the new images that are taking the place of the old nationalist f...

Enough is Enough

How to Build a New Republic

The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment by ...

Ship of Fools

How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger

The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever reall...

White Savage

William Johnson and the Invention of America

A dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish fur trapper who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands. William Johnson beg...

The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising

'The 1916 Rising' re-creates the actual course of events during that tumultuous week, based on contemporary witnesses, memoirs and later recollections...

Up the Republic!

Towards a New Ireland

In this important book, historians, lawyers, economists and writers come together to put a coherent case: that although the Irish economic collapse ha...

Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life

The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from class...

A Modest Proposal

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Judging Shaw

The Radicalism of GBS$HFintan O'Toole

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Black Hole, Green Card

The Disappearance of Ireland

This portrait of 1990s, is told with insight and vigor. O'Toole argues that there is no longer an Irish economy, just a Black Hole through which profi...

A Traitor's Kiss

The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

This is a biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the author of The School for Scandal and The Rival. He was the quintessential dramatist-entrepreneur...

The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism

“I read The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism by Fintan O’Toole and wished I’d written it.” – Zadie Smith, Wall ...

Irish Art Now

From the Poetic to the Political

"Reflecting the seismic changes in Ireland's political, social, economic, and cultural realities of the 1990s, contemporary Irish artists have begun t...

A Fair Day

Photographs from the West of Ireland

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No More Heroes

A Radical Guide to Shakespeare

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A History of Ireland in 100 Objects

The Irish Times literary editor Fintan O'Toole selects 100 objects to narrate a history of Ireland....

Post Washington

Why America Can't Rule the World

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Judging Shaw

The Radicalism of GBS

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE INVENTION OF GBS -- 2. REVOLT INTO STYLE: GBS VERSUS ENGLAND -- 3. AFTER...

Judging Shaw

The Radicalism of GBS$HFintan O'Toole

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Tom Murphy

The Politics of Magic

Critical study of the life and work of the acclaimed Irish playwright...

A Radical Guide to Macbeth & Hamlet for Leaving Cert and University Students

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The Brexit Chronicles

A Year of Madness

A year in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of Heroic Failure. The Brexit Chroniclesis a mordantly funny and perceptive account o...

The Politics of Magic

The Work and Times of Tom Murphy

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Meyler

A Family Memoir

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The Irish Times Book of the Century

1900-1999

Fintan O'Toole draws together the key events of modern Irish history, showing how international factors shaped them and recalling the manner in which ...

Oliver Comerford

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Martin Parr: From the Pope to a Flat White, Ireland 1979-2019

Forty years of transformation and upheaval: compiling Martin Parr's longstanding love affair with Ireland Martin Parr (born 1952) has been taking phot...