Fintan O'Toole

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Fintan O'Toole (b. 1958) is a columnist and drama critic for The Irish Times.

O'Toole was born in 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 was elected Irish Journalist of the Year in 1993. O'Toole is both a literary critic and a left-wing political commentator. In his frequent columns in the Irish Times he takes a revisionist line on Irish political history. He was notably critical of the state funeral awarded to Kevin Barry and other executed IRA men in 2001. O'Toole said he found this adulation of the old IRA offensive. He has a history of criticising perceived corruption among Ireland's political elite. O'Toole has also criticised negative attitudes towards immigration in Ireland, the state of Ireland's public services, limitatation on access to the countryside, the Iraq War and the American military's use of Shannon Airport. O'Toole is currently in China reporting for The Irish Times.

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  • The Politics of Magic: The Work and Times of Tom Murphy, 1987;
  • A Mass for Jesse James: A Journey Through 1980s Ireland, 1990;
  • Black Hole, Green Card: The Disappearance of Ireland, 1994;
  • Meanwhile Back at the Ranch, 1994;
  • Macbeth & Hamlet, 1995;
  • Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1997;
  • The Ex-Isle of Ireland: Images of a Global Ireland, 1997;
  • The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities, 1998;
  • The Irish Times Book of the Century, 1999;
  • Shakespeare is Hard But So is Life, 2002;
  • After The Ball, 2003;
  • Critical Moments: Fintan O'Toole on Modern Irish Theatre, 2003;
  • Post Washington: Why America Can't Rule the World (with Tony Kinsella), 2005;
  • White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America, 2005

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