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Fintan O'Toole (born 16 February 1958) is an Irish journalist, literary editor, and drama critic for The Irish Times, for which he has written since 1988. O'Toole was drama critic for the New York Daily News from 1997 to 2001 and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books .
978-1784978297. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 (published with the subtitle A Personal History of Modern Ireland in the United States) is a book by Irish journalist and critic Fintan O’Toole published in 2021. The book combines aspects of history, memoir, reporting, political commentary and criticism to ...
Details of the hundred objects, written by Irish Times journalist Fintan O'Toole, were initially serialized in The Irish Times between February 2011 and January 2013. In February 2013 a book about the hundred objects written by O'Toole, entitled A History of Ireland in 100 Objects , was published, and it quickly became a best-seller with 35,000 ...
The paper's most prominent columnists include writer and arts commentator Fintan O'Toole and satirist Miriam Lord. The late Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald was once a columnist. Michael O'Regan was the Leinster House correspondent for over 30 years. Senior international figures, including Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, have written for its op-ed page.
Journalist Fintan O'Toole criticized the song in The Irish Times for "its ignorance of cultural history", claiming that it was inappropriate given Irish Americans' history of racism against African Americans, and that emphasizing Obama's Irish heritage would be "muscling in on his parade".
Flann O'Brien. Brian O'Nolan ( Irish: Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966), his pen name being Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature. Born in Strabane, County Tyrone, he is regarded as a key figure in ...
Charles Acton, music critic (1956–1987) John Banville, sub editor and literary editor. Maeve Binchy. Mark Brennock, chief political correspondent. Sarah Carey, former columnist, sacked in 2011. Joe Carroll. Myles na gCopaleen, satirical columnist. Michael Dwyer (journalist), film critic. Donal Foley, satirical columnist.
Fintan O'Toole, writing for The Irish Times considered that The Lesser Bohemians was a "more hopeful" work than A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, and that "the central character seems, unlike her predecessor, fully capable of making her own life. “Life”, indeed, is the novel’s last word – literally and emotionally."