Fintan O'Toole
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Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
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Belfast Telegraphâs Sam McBride wins Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize for co-authored united Ireland debate book
Northern Ireland editor of the Belfast Telegraph Sam McBride has won the 29th Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize along with Fintan OâToole for their co-authored book, For and Against a United Irel...
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/belfast-telegraphs-sam-mcbride-wins-christopher-ewart-biggs-prize-for-co-authored-united-ireland-debate-book/a/143676653.html
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If you're anywhere in the vicinity of Princeton on Friday please join us
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Fund for Irish Studies at Princeton University presents âFor and Against a United Irelandâ
âFor and Against a United Irelandâ authors Fintan OâToole & Sam McBride debate their points for Princeton's Fund for Irish Studies on 3/20/26.
https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2026/03/fund-for-irish-studies-at-princeton-university-presents-for-and-against-a-united-ireland/
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The New York Review of Books
6 days ago
Our 4/9 issue is now online, with Pankaj Mishra on India and Iran, Pablo Scheffer on the art of tennis,
@yilingliu95.bsky.social
on Shenzhenâs engineers, Miranda Seymour on Muriel Sparkâs spark, Ben Lerner on John Berger,
@fotoole.bsky.social
on Trumpâs war of choice, & more.
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April 9, 2026 Issue
Table of Contents
https://www.nybooks.com/issues/2026/04/09/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-03-19_04-09-26-issue-reveal
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Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
9 days ago
Great event on âFor and Against a United Irelandâ this morning in DC with the Washington Ireland Program and authors
@fotoole.bsky.social
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Deeply honoured that Sam McBride and I have won the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize for For and Against a United Ireland.
www.hotpress.com/culture/fint...
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Fintan OâToole and Sam McBride win 29th Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize | Hotpress
'We were seeking not to change people’s minds, but to open them,' said Sam McBride when accepting the award.
https://www.hotpress.com/culture/fintan-otoole-and-sam-mcbride-win-29th-christopher-ewart-biggs-literary-prize-23134304
6 days ago
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ARINS Project
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'For and against a united Ireland' by Sam McBride and Fintan OâToole has won the 29th Ewart-Biggs Prize! đ đđŸ The Ewart-Biggs Prize recognises work that promotes peace, reconciliation and greater understanding.
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Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
12 days ago
We kicked off the US tour of âFor and Against a United Irelandâ last night in Chicago w/ authors
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and
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. Next: NYC, DC, Boston, Princeton The book has inspired dialogue in Ireland and the UK. Itâs a thrill to discuss it on this side of the Atlantic.
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The New York Review of Books
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Fintan OâToole (
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) on Trumpâs meaningless war, all violence and no pretext, all means and no ends
https://go.nybooks.com/4rrbXOP
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Signifying Absolutely Nothing | Fintan OâToole
Trumpâs war of choice in Iran is a performance of horrific military strength that betrays a stark political weakness.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/03/13/signifying-absolutely-nothing-iran-war-otoole/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-03-13_OToole-Iran040926-1
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Signifying Absolutely Nothing | Fintan OâToole
Trumpâs war of choice in Iran is a performance of horrific military strength that betrays a stark political weakness.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/03/13/signifying-absolutely-nothing-iran-war-otoole/
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Fintan OâToole: Donald Trump is not mentally ill, but he is mad
Someone needs to tell him the truth or swathes of the world could be turned into Gaza writ large
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/03/10/fintan-otoole-donald-trump-napoleon-iran-israel-gaza-pedro-sanchez/
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Poignant that Country Joe died in the midst of all this: "One, two, three, four / What are we fighting for?"
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Country Joe & the Fish - VietNam Song - Live Woodstock 1969 - Full HD Video
YouTube video by Dima T
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17 days ago
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Fox News uses old clip of Trump after he wore hat while saluting slain US soldiers
Conservative outlet aired footage of president saluting at similar ceremony in December for at least three broadcasts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/fox-news-trump-hat-salute-military
17 days ago
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
19 days ago
Prosecutors are losing key witnesses in criminal cases because they are getting deported by this administration. The lawlessness of ICE and CBP makes us all less safe.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
19 days ago
The Trump administration is unsatirisable
add a skeleton here at some point
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Fintan O'Toole
Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
21 days ago
Join us in Chicago for an event with
@fotoole.bsky.social
and
@sjamcbride.bsky.social
â authors of the acclaimed book âFor and Against a United Ireland.â đïž Thursday, March 12 đ Reception @ 4:30 pm | Event @ 5:30 pm đ The Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren St. â Register here:
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Fintan O'Toole: Britainâs King Charles should heed the lesson of the crumbling Irish Catholic Church
Abusers did not bring down the hierarchy here, it was down to the repeated cover-ups by bishops
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/02/24/catholic-church-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-king-charles-virginia-giuffre-jeffrey-epstein/
29 days ago
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Emily Bell
about 1 month ago
Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being âpsychologically flawedâ âŠ.1/
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Opinion | The Former British Prince and the Very American Outrage
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/opinion/andrew-arrest-epstein.html
about 1 month ago
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Great piece on Andrew and imagery.
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From handsome prince to a ghost behind glass, Andrewâs face tells the story of his decline | Fay Bound-Alberti
Royals have always prized their images as ways to assert their lineage and authority. Now this pathetic photo will define the former prince, says historian Fay Bound-Alberti
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/20/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-prince-face-car-window
about 1 month ago
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If you're in New York on March 25th you're very welcome to this talk in memory of the great Robert Silvers.
www.showclix.com/tickets/fint...
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Fintan O'Toole: The Idiocy of Greatness
Fintan O'Toole: The Idiocy of Greatness in New York - Checkout. The acclaimed Irish writer delivers the annual Robert B. Silvers lecture. The idea of greatness has infused politics across much of the...
https://www.showclix.com/tickets/fintan-otoole/tag/guest
about 1 month ago
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."
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This mock-up from the Guardian is rather eloquent
about 1 month ago
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Sherrilyn Ifill
about 1 month ago
Yes itâs Valentineâs Day. But itâs also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
about 1 month ago
The idea that Trump is creating quotas for denaturalization is a gross abuse of power that should scare every single American. Republicans used to pretend they were for legal immigration, but now they are working to strip citizenship from Americans for no reason.
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Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-working-expand-effort-strip-citizenship-foreign-b-rcna255427
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The Tennessee Holler
about 1 month ago
SEN. KAINE: âYou said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide⊠are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEOâs?â Trumpâs white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by
@kaine.senate.gov
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The New York Review of Books
about 1 month ago
âIf the murder of Alex PrettiâŠcannot be called murder, an authoritarian regime has passed one of its crucial tests: it can reverse all meaningsâŠmaking the victim the perpetrator, the perpetrator the victim.â â
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The Crime of Witness | Fintan OâToole
RenĂ©e Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administrationâs efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/01/29/the-crime-of-witness-fintan-otoole/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-02-04_OToole-Pretti-3
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Prof David Farrell, UCD
about 1 month ago
âThe effluence of extreme affluenceâ.
@fotoole.bsky.social
in full flight
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Fintan O'Toole: Epstein and his pals were culture warriors. The war they waged was against women
Jeffrey Epstein and his friends were culture warriors â the war they waged was against women
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/02/10/fintan-otoole-epstein-and-his-pals-were-culture-warriors-the-war-they-waged-was-against-women/
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Fintan O'Toole: Epstein and his pals were culture warriors. The war they waged was against women
Jeffrey Epstein and his friends were culture warriors â the war they waged was against women
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/02/10/fintan-otoole-epstein-and-his-pals-were-culture-warriors-the-war-they-waged-was-against-women/
about 1 month ago
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So in the UkK the repercussions from Epstein scandal have taken down a chief-of-staff, a prince, an ambassador to the US and will soon take doen the prime minister himself. That's what a functioning democracy looks like. And in the US...???
about 1 month ago
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Mark Chadbourn
about 2 months ago
Exit polls show socialist Antonio Jose Seguro has crushed the Far Right candidate Andre Ventura in Portugalâs presidential runoff.
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Jim Acosta
about 2 months ago
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not âmove onâ from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world.
#standwithsurvivors
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Martin Doyle
about 2 months ago
Cover reveal of my new book and a link to pre-order. Youâre welcome đ€https://www.lilliputpress.ie/products/a-hosting-interviews-with-irish-writers-1991-2025
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Fintan O'Toole
The New York Review of Books
about 2 months ago
âIf the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.â â
@fotoole.bsky.social
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The Crime of Witness | Fintan OâToole
RenĂ©e Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administrationâs efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/01/29/the-crime-of-witness-fintan-otoole/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-01-31_OToole-Pretti-2
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Fintan O'Toole
The New York Review of Books
about 2 months ago
Our 2/26 issue is now online, with
@fotoole.bsky.social
on the murders in Minneapolis, Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrisonâs sense of humor,
@juliangewirtz.bsky.social
on the new microchip race, Vivian Gornick on Arundhati Roy,
@rhodesben.bsky.social
on Robert McNamaraâs sins, and much more.
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February 26, 2026 Issue
Table of Contents
https://www.nybooks.com/issues/2026/02/26/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-02-05_02-26-26-issue-reveal
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Omg. WTF is Happening?
about 2 months ago
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeareâs Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks
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Fintan O'Toole: Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson will go down in history as crawlers and creeps
If we want to understand why democracy is in such trouble, we can learn plenty from the careers of two men who were once stellar figures in democratic politics
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/02/03/tony-blair-and-peter-mandelson-will-go-down-in-history-as-crawlers-and-creeps/
about 2 months ago
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Julie K. Brown
about 2 months ago
Troublemaker is my middle name.
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Fintan O'Toole
The New York Review of Books
about 2 months ago
âIf the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.â â
@fotoole.bsky.social
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The Crime of Witness | Fintan OâToole
RenĂ©e Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administrationâs efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/01/29/the-crime-of-witness-fintan-otoole/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-01-31_OToole-Pretti-2
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Fintan O'Toole
The New York Review of Books
about 2 months ago
âTrumpâs imperial project is all gunboat and no diplomacy. He probably mistakes the flatteryâŠof most European leaders for esteem. In reality their deference masks a mixture of fear and short-term resignation.â â
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Whose Hemisphere? | Fintan OâToole
The US capture of Venezuelan president NicolĂĄs Maduro reinforces the Trump administrationâs capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/02/12/whose-hemisphere-venezuela-fintan-otoole/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-01-25_OToole-Venezuela-2
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Bruce Springsteen
about 2 months ago
Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist Weâll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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The New York Review of Books
about 2 months ago
Fintan OâToole
@fotoole.bsky.social
on the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti
https://go.nybooks.com/4bmNB4F
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The Crime of Witness | Fintan OâToole
RenĂ©e Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administrationâs efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
https://go.nybooks.com/4bmNB4F
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The Crime of Witness | Fintan OâToole
RenĂ©e Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administrationâs efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/01/29/the-crime-of-witness-fintan-otoole/
about 2 months ago
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Whose Hemisphere? | Fintan OâToole
The US capture of Venezuelan president NicolĂĄs Maduro reinforces the Trump administrationâs capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/02/12/whose-hemisphere-venezuela-fintan-otoole/
about 2 months ago
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University of Notre Dame Press
2 months ago
The prospect of #Irish #Unification is now stronger than at any point since #Partition in 1921. Journalists Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride examine the strongest arguments FOR AND AGAINST A UNITED IRELAND. Sam McBride Fintan O'Toole #Preorder their book at:
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University of Notre Dame Press
3 months ago
Happening this spring! On March 14th, authors @fotoole.bsky.social and @sjamcbride.bsky.social will discuss FOR AND AGAINST A UNITED IRELAND at the Irish Arts Center in #NewYork. Their #NewBook presents the case for and against #Irish #Unification. Order your tickets at:
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On Renee;
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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American shot dead by Ice agent remembered for âformative yearsâ in Northern Ireland
Renée Nicole Good took part in Christian youth missions to Northern Ireland as a teenager
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/01/09/american-shot-dead-by-ice-agent-remembered-for-formative-years-in-ireland/
2 months ago
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The Picasso of Football. Absolutely loved watching this genius.
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John Robertson, Nottingham Forest and Scotland legend, dies aged 72
John Robertson, part of Brian Cloughâs famous Nottingham Forest side and a former Scotland international, has died at the age of 72
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/25/john-robertson-nottingham-forest-and-scotland-legend-dies-aged-72
3 months ago
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Will Cooling
4 months ago
itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b...
I read
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's For & Against A United Ireland. A fascinating intellectual exercise that gave me the push to put down my thoughts on how any possible Irish Unification vote should be approached.
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It Could Be Said #80 What To Do About Northern Ireland?
Will has read a book and has thought about Britain's sole land border
https://itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-be-said-80-what-to-do-about
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A memory of Martin Parr
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Remembering Martin Parr, a lovely, warm, gentle man who dragged me out of bed at 5.30am
Parr always persevered in his belief that there is humanity in humour and humour in humanity
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025/12/08/remembering-martin-parr-a-lovely-warm-gentle-man-who-dragged-me-out-of-bed-at-530am/
4 months ago
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