Fintan O’Toole is Literary Editor of The Irish Times and Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton. His latest book is A History of Ireland in 100 Objects. (June 2013)
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The Real Men of England
June 6, 2013
A Delicate Truth
by John le Carré
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Waking Up the Half-Dead
April 25, 2013
Umbrella
by Will Self
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The Great Actor Who Hated Acting
December 6, 2012
The Richard Burton Diaries
edited by Chris Williams
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Joyce: Heroic, Comic
October 25, 2012
James Joyce: A New Biography
by Gordon Bowker
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An Irish Genius in New York
August 16, 2012
DruidMurphy: Conversations on a Homecoming, A Whistle in the Dark, Famine by Tom Murphy, directed by Garry Hynes
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Oblomov in Dublin
August 13, 2009
The Complete Novels: At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman, The Poor Mouth, The Hard Life, The Dalkey Archive
by Flann O'Brien, with an introduction by Keith Donohue
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What Haunted Eugene O’Neill?
November 8, 2007
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
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Howling from the Sidelines
May 10, 2007
John Osborne: The Many Lives of the Angry Young Man
by John Heilpern
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The Saving Remnant
November 17, 2005
A Bit on the Side
by William Trevor
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Albee & the Women
October 21, 2004
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These Illusions Are Real
September 23, 2004
The Collected Plays of Edward Albee, Volume 1: 1958–65
by Edward Albee
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Missing Person
September 25, 2003
Personality
by Andrew O'Hagan
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The Taming of a Terrorist
February 27, 2003
A Secret History of the IRA
by Ed Moloney
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Guns in the Family
April 11, 2002
Blood-Dark Track: A Family History
by Joseph O'Neill
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Are the Troubles Over?
October 5, 2000
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
Those Are Real Bullets, Aren’t They? Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972 by Peter Pringle, by Philip Jacobson
Northern Ireland’s Troubles: The Human Costs by Marie-Therese Fay, by Mike Morrissey, by Marie Smyth
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Game Without End
January 20, 2000
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
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Our Own Jacobean
October 7, 1999
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
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Poet Beyond Borders
March 4, 1999
Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996
by Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
by Helen Vendler
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Mystic Scientist
November 19, 1998
Threads of Time: Recollections
by Peter Brook
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The Masked Avenger
August 13, 1998
Four Plays
by Wallace Shawn
The Designated Mourner
by Wallace Shawn
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‘The End of the Troubles?’: An Exchange
April 9, 1998
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The End of the Troubles?
February 19, 1998
Behind the Mask: The IRA and Sinn Fein by Peter Taylor
Before the Dawn: An Autobiography by Gerry Adams
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Fintan O'Toole on Flann O'Brien
August 26, 2009