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Fintan O'Toole

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Fintan O'Toole

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1958-02-16 （Dublin, Ireland）
Nationality
Irish
Languages
English
Residence History
Dublin, Ireland

Career

Occupations
Journalist, Literary editor, Drama critic, Author, Political commentator
Active Years
1978-
Affiliations
The Irish Times, Princeton University
Memberships
Royal Irish Academy, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, American Philosophical Society

Education

University College Dublin
English and philosophy
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Year of Graduation: 1978
Country: Ireland
Coláiste Chaoimhín
Country: Ireland
Crumlin, Dublin

Awards

Irish Book Awards
2013
Work: A History of Ireland in 100 Objects
Category: Best Irish Published Book of the Year
Organization: Irish Book Awards
Result: 受賞
Irish Book Awards
2021
Work: We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
Category: Odgers Berndtson Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Organization: Irish Book Awards
Result: 受賞
Irish Book Awards
2021
Work: We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
Category: An Post Irish Book of the Year
Organization: Irish Book Awards
Result: 受賞
Orwell Prize for Journalism
2017
Result: 受賞
European Press Prize (Commentator Award)
2017
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958

2021 Non-fiction

A personal history of Ireland since 1958.

Irish historyPoliticsSocial change

Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

2018 Political commentary

Analysis of Brexit and English nationalism.

BrexitNationalism

A History of Ireland in 100 Objects

2013 History

History of Ireland told through 100 objects.

Irish historyCulture

Bibliography

  • The Politics of Magic: the Work and Times of Tom Murphy
  • A Mass for Jesse James: A Journey Through 1980s Ireland
  • Black Hole, Green Card: The Disappearance of Ireland
  • Meanwhile Back at the Ranch: The Politics of Irish Beef
  • Macbeth & Hamlet
  • A Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • The Ex-Isle of Ireland: Images of a Global Ireland
  • The Lie of the Land
  • The Irish Times Book of the Century
  • Shakespeare is Hard But So is Life
  • Ship of Fools, How Stupidity And Corruption Sank The Celtic Tiger
  • Enough is Enough: How to Build a New New Republic
  • Up the Republic!: Towards a New Ireland
  • A History of Ireland in 100 Objects
  • Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks
  • Judging Shaw
  • Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
  • The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism
  • Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles
  • We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Sharp critical stylePolitical insightHistorical narrative
Recurring Motifs
Irish identityNationalismSocial inequality

Legacy

Renowned Irish journalist, critic, and historian known for works on Brexit and modern Irish history.

Quotes

  • His tragic theater is not a classroom. It is a fairground wall of death in which the characters are being pushed outward by the centrifugal force of the action but held in place by the friction of the language.
    Source: The New York Review of Books (2024)

Trivia

  • Named one of Britain's top 300 intellectuals by The Observer in 2011, despite not being British.