Fintan O’Toole Biography
Fintan O’Toole is a columnist, 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.
Fintan O’Toole Age
Fintan was born on 18 February 1958 in Dublin, Ireland. He is 61 years as of 2019.
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Fintan O’Toole Wife
Information about his relation is not revealed to the public. despite the fact, Fintan is married and having children with her wife.
Fintan O’Toole Bobby Sands: 66 Days
Bobby Sands: 66 Days is a 2016 documentary film about Bobby Sands and the 1981 Irish hunger strike from Northern Ireland.
Fintan O’Toole Views
O’Toole has criticized 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 US military’s use of Shannon Airport, among many other issues. In 2006 he spent six months reporting for The Irish Times in China.
His former editor, Geraldine Kennedy, was paid more than the editor of the UK’s top non-tabloid newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which has a circulation about nine times that of The Irish Times. Later, O’Toole told a rival Irish paper, the Sunday Independent: We as a paper are not shy of preaching about corporate pay and fat cats but with this, there is a sense of excess. Some of the sums mentioned are disturbing. This is not an attack on Ms. Kennedy, it is an attack on the executive level of pay. There is a double standard of seeking more job cuts while paying these vast salaries.
In June 2012 O’Toole compared the Constitutional Convention to the Citizens Union, a reformist political organization which Tammany Hall did not bother suppressing so long as it did not threaten its hegemony
Fintan O’Toole Writings
- 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: The Politics of Irish Beef, 1994;
- Macbeth & Hamlet, 1995;
- A 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, 1998;
- The Irish Times Book of the Century, 1999;
- Shakespeare is Hard But So is Life, 2002;
- Contributor, Granta 77: What We Think of America, 2002;
- “Jubilee”, Granta 79: Celebrity, 2002;
- After The Ball, 2003;
- Post-Washington: Why America Can’t Rule the World, 2005 (with Tony Kinsella);
- White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America, 2005
- The Irish Times Book of 1916 Rising, 2006 (with Shane Hegarty)
- Ship Of Fools, How Stupidity And Corruption Sank The Celtic Tiger, 2009.
- Enough is Enough: How to Build the New Republic, 2010.
- Up the Republic!: Towards a New Ireland (editor), 2012
- A History of Ireland in 100 Objects, 2013
- Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks, 2016
- Judging Shaw, 2017
- Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain, 2018
Fintan O’Toole Awards
- 1993 AT Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism
- 1994 Justice Award of the Incorporated Law Society
- 2000 Millennium Social Inclusion Award
- 2012 TV3 Tonight Show Journalist of the Year
- 2013 Irish Book Awards (Best Irish Published Book of the Year), A History of Ireland in 100 Objects
- 2014 GALA Journalist/Broadcaster Award
- 2017 European Press Prize (Commentator Award)
- 2017 Orwell Prize for Journalism
- 2017 NewsBrands Ireland Journalism Awards Broadsheet Columnist of the Year
- 2018 NewsBrands Ireland Journalism Awards Broadsheet Columnist of the Year
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Fintan O’Toole: Are the English ready for self-government?
Updated: Mar 19, 2019
”The alleged aptitude of the English for self-government,” wrote Bernard Shaw in his preface to Androcles and the Lion, “is contradicted by every chapter of their history.” Shaw was, of course, parodying British imperialist rhetoric and its insistence that lesser peoples – including his own nation, the Irish – were not ready to govern themselves. He was being naughtily provocative, which only the most irresponsible of commentators would dare to be in these grave times.
But there is nonetheless some tinge of truth in his words. Aptitude for self-government is not what comes to mind when one looks in from the outside at the goings-on in Westminster last week, when, as Tom Peck so brilliantly put it in the London Independent, “the House of Commons was a Benny Hill chase on acid, running through a Salvador Dali painting in a spaceship on its way to infinity”.
Let’s just say that if Theresa May were the head of a newly liberated African colony in the 1950s, British conservatives would have been pointing, half-ruefully, half-gleefully, in her direction and saying “See? Told you so – they just weren’t ready to rule themselves. Needed at least another generation of tutelage by the Mother Country.”
There is a surreal kind of logic to this. If, as the Brexiteers do, you imagine yourself to be an oppressed colony breaking away from the German Reich aka the European Union, perhaps you do end up with a pantomime version of the travails of newly independent colonies, including the civil wars that often follow national liberation.
Source:irishtimes.com