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
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Letting It All Hang Out nybooks.com/online/2024/11/0… via @nybooks
Fintan O'Toole: Trump’s openly authoritarian instincts are about to be unleashed irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/…
Fintan O'Toole: What has happened to the cowboys who built defective apartments? Absolutely nothing irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/…
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📣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.
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ALT Trinity Long Room Hub Annual Edmund Burke Lecture 2024 Date and time Tuesday, November 26 · 7 - 8:30pm GMT Location Thomas Davis Lecture Theatre Arts Building Trinity College Dublin 2 Dublin
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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 🗣️ abc.net.au/listen/programs/b… @UTSEngage @fotoole VCDF
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“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 afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts… @UTSEngage
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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.
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“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 go.nybooks.com/3MPsoTi
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Rallying call for action, @fotoole spotlighting the call for targeted child benefit in @CommunityFound @ESRIDublin research...and the political obstacles! irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/… @SimonHarrisTD @ivanabacik @ChildRightsIRL @barratree @Tanya_Ward
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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 ow.ly/uWN650Tu4Sx
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Last night we celebrated Intermezzo in Dublin at an extraordinary first event for publication with Sally Rooney and @fotoole.
Fintan O'Toole: It’s all eyes on the election now and children don’t have a vote irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/…
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“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 Democrats are in power, but they have not felt in control.” —Fintan O’Toole (@fotoole) on joy and despair at the DNC go.nybooks.com/4eaXq4k
Fintan O'Toole: Ireland fixates on the ghosts of the past, and is blind to the abuses still happening irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/…
