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Fintan O'Toole

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born

January 01, 1958 in Dublin, Ireland

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male

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Politics, Social Sciences

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Fintan O'Toole is a columnist, assistant editor and drama critic for The Irish Times. O'Toole was born in Dublin and was partly educated at University College Dublin. He has written for the Irish Times since 1988 and was drama critic for the New York Daily News from 1997 to 2001. He is a literary critic, historical writer and political commentator, with generally left-wing views. He was and continues to be a strong critic of corruption in Irish politics, in both the Haughey era and continuing to the present.

O'Toole has criticised what he sees as negative attitudes towards immigration in Ireland, the state of Ireland's public services, growing inequality during Ireland's economic boom, the Iraq War and the American military's use of Shannon...more

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Books by Fintan O'Toole

Average rating: 3.87 · 151 ratings · 33 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Ship Of Fools: How Stupidity And Corruption Sank The Celtic Tiger 3.79 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Shakespeare is Hard, But So is Life: A Radical Guide to Shakespearian Tragedy 4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Ex-Isle of Erin: Images of a Global Ireland 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Mass for Jesse James 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Enough Is Enough: How to Build a New Republic 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	After the Ball 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003	My rating: