Fintan O'Toole

Fintan O'Toole is a columnist and critic with The Irish Times. He is the author of White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America. (November 2007)

From the Review

November 8, 2007: What Haunted Eugene O'Neill?

Collected Shorter Plays by Eugene O'Neill, with an introduction by Robert Brustein

Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy by John Patrick Diggins

May 10, 2007: Howling from the Sidelines

John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man by John Heilpern

November 17, 2005: The Saving Remnant

A Bit on the Side by William Trevor

October 21, 2004: Albee & the Women (letter)

September 23, 2004: These Illusions Are Real

The Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 1: 1958–65 by Edward Albee

September 25, 2003: Missing Person

Personality by Andrew O'Hagan

February 27, 2003: The Taming of a Terrorist

A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney

April 11, 2002: Guns in the Family

Blood-Dark Track: A Family History by Joseph O'Neill

October 5, 2000: Are the Troubles Over?

Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles Square by David McKittrick, by Seamus Kelters, by Brian Feeney, by Chris Thornton

Ireland North and South: Perspectives from Social Science edited by Anthony F. Heath, edited by Richard Breen, edited by Christopher T. Whelan

The Trouble with Guns: Republican Strategy and the Provisional IRA by Malachi O'Doherty

Northern Ireland's Troubles: The Human Costs by Marie-Therese Fay, by Mike Morrissey, by Marie Smyth

Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They? Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972 by Peter Pringle, by Philip Jacobson

January 20, 2000: Game Without End

The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV: The Shorter Plays edited by S.E. Gontarski

No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider edited by Maurice Harmon

October 7, 1999: Our Own Jacobean

Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics by Harold Pinter

Ashes to Ashes a play by Harold Pinter, directed by Karel Reisz. at the Gramercy Theater, New York, January 19-April 25, 1999.

The Hothouse a play by Harold Pinter, directed by Karen Kohlhaas. at the Atlantic Theater, New York, February 25-March 27, 1999.

The Proust Screenplay: Remembrance of Things Past by Harold Pinter

March 4, 1999: Poet Beyond Borders

Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney by Helen Vendler

November 19, 1998: Mystic Scientist

Threads of Time: Recollections by Peter Brook

August 13, 1998: The Masked Avenger

Four Plays by Wallace Shawn

The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn

April 9, 1998: 'The End of the Troubles?': An Exchange

February 19, 1998: The End of the Troubles?

Behind the Mask: The IRA and Sinn Fein by Peter Taylor

Before the Dawn: An Autobiography by Gerry Adams