Black Hole, Green Card

by Fintan O'Toole

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 profits and jobs vanish. There is no Irish nation, just a scattered people who still hold a country in their heads. He explores the crisis of politics in a country whose rulers find it incomprehensible, and cites the elements of a new Irish identity being forged in the 1990s.

Genres: Irish Literature

224 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1994

About the author

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 Airport, among many other issues. In 2006, he spent six months in China reporting for The Irish Times. In his weekly columns in The Irish Times, O'Toole opposed the IRA's campaign during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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