Fintan O'Toole

MRIA. Irish Times columnist, advising ed New York Review of Books, winner European Press Prize, Orwell Prize, Robert Silvers Prize. We Don't Know Ourselves

[Fintan O'Toole @fotoole]

Hi all. I'm leaving X and Moving over to Bluesky @fotoole.bsky.social Please join me there.

[Fintan O'Toole @fotoole]

Letting It All Hang Out https://t.co/PQv5fqKcng via @nybooks

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Fintan O'Toole: Trump’s openly authoritarian instincts are about to be unleashed https://t.co/RNC2QAAbi0

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Fintan O'Toole: What has happened to the cowboys who built defective apartments? Absolutely nothing https://t.co/FH4DilInKB

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Playing for Time https://t.co/xF4GxJPL3Z via @nybooks

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The Protection Racket https://t.co/0DJm3GDVTg via @nybooks

[Trinity Long Room Hub @TLRHub]

📣We are thrilled to announce that the Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2024 will be delivered by the distinguished author and columnist Fintan O’Toole on November 26th.

🎟️Reserve your tickets here: https://t.co/JorHVK3Gav

#HubMatters #EdmundBurke

[Roy Green @ProfRoyGreen]

Fintan O’Toole’s brilliant talk on ‘The Perils of Self-pity: #Democracy & identity in the age of Trump’ in the UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Democracy Forum series can now be accessed on @ABCbigideas 🗣️ https://t.co/OGzah5W9rI @UTSEngage @fotoole VCDF

[Roy Green @ProfRoyGreen]

“Self-pity is a psychological mechanism in which you turn general empathy for all suffering back inwards on yourself. It justifies you kicking everybody else because they made you suffer” @fotoole @harejulie on politics of self-pity & identity https://t.co/Do74znnjCw @UTSEngage

[john creedon @johncreedon]

Filming a piece with Fintan O'Toole at Vicar Street for Creedon's Musical Atlas of Ireland. Sundays at 6.30pm on RTE One from Sun. Oct. 6th.

[Fintan O'Toole @fotoole]

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[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“Trump is trivial; his agenda is monumental. How this plays with voters is yet to be seen, but perhaps its real point at the convention was not so much to curse Trump as to lift the curse he had placed on the Democrats themselves.” —@fotoole https://t.co/jEK2Tb2UYl

[denise charlton @Denise_CFI]

Rallying call for action, @fotoole spotlighting the call for targeted child benefit in @CommunityFound @ESRIDublin research...and the political obstacles! https://t.co/FrPlZl4LjV @SimonHarrisTD @ivanabacik @ChildRightsIRL @barratree @Tanya_Ward

[One Family Ireland @1familyireland]

But we’re going to leave another generation of kids to grow up in deprivation because it’s all too much to get our heads around right now. Just hang on in there and try not to get too angry and ashamed about being poor in a rich country.", writes @fotoole https://t.co/ojVVkfr84a

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Last night we celebrated Intermezzo in Dublin at an extraordinary first event for publication with Sally Rooney and @fotoole.

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Fintan O'Toole: It’s all eyes on the election now and children don’t have a vote https://t.co/5ua0T4i8rd

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“The debate showed that the danger for Trump is not that his rhetoric is extreme or that his lies are outlandish,” writes Fintan O’Toole (@fotoole). “It is that they are getting stale.”
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[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“The Democrats are in power, but they have not felt in control.” —Fintan O’Toole (@fotoole) on joy and despair at the DNC https://t.co/Uok7YsMDcz

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Fintan O'Toole: Ireland fixates on the ghosts of the past, and is blind to the abuses still happening https://t.co/Upw6cplJHs

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Trump’s Old News https://t.co/kBlplxtdGz via @nybooks