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Irish Times Book of 1916 Rising
Shane Hegarty and Fintan O'Toole

Gill & Macmillan, 2006

This book focuses on the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, rather than the background and the consequences. In a widely expanded version of the supplement that appeared in The Irish Times in March to commemorate the 90th Anniversary, The 1916 Rising recreates the actual course of events during that tumultuous week, based on contemporary witnesses, memoirs and later recollections. It adds up to the most comprehensive and accessible ...

The Ex-Isle of Erin: Images of a Global Ireland

1 review
Fintan O'Toole

New Island Books, 1997

An Island Unmoored
Fintan O'Toole can find a pulse. He also knows what's hiding in the closet, or under the bed, or up a hole. For sheer diagnostic brilliance, the self-professed "lugubrious and cynical" essayist has no equal in observing Ireland's wild cavorting with the planet. Stock images of the Irish, he contends, have been utterly blown to smithereens as contemporary Ireland has undergone a radical ...

A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

4 reviews
Fintan O'Toole

Granta Books, 1998

a terrific book
I was familiar with Sheridan from his theatrical comedies, plays that have become standard in the repertoire. I was dimly aware of his service in Parliament. I wasn't aware of his extensive involvement in the great political questions of the day, particularly the Irish questions, nor of his centrality in the great debates of the late 18th century--the American war for independence, the ...

White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America

9 reviews
Fintan O'Toole

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005

Sir Paradox
Once I started reading, I found this book hard to put down. It is about a paradoxical man and a fascinating period of history. Unlike some reviewers, I thought the references to Irish history were a logical link to understanding William Johnson's identity and actions. In the process, I also learned something about Irish history.

Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life: A Radical Guide to Shakespearean Tragedy

4 reviews
Fintan O'Toole

Granta UK, 2003

Breathing fresh life into Shakespeare
Although this is a reprint of his 1990 volume originally titled "No More Heroes," O'Toole's introduction to Shakespeare and his great tragedies is yet one of the most helpful retakes on why we need to return to the original plots (in both senses) of the author. O'Toole arms teachers, individual readers, and potential directors with insights that will restore excitement to the experience of ...

Pony Kids

Aperture, 1999

"If you're on bareback you're with the horse... The feeling is youse are together, youse are clicking, you know what I mean, but if you're on a saddle youse are floating on a lump of leather you're not on a horse, but when you are on bareback it's a total feeling, you know. You are with the horse all the way and you feel every move that the horse is making going through that park. You might as well just sit on the ground and fucking run along ...

Radical Guide to MacBeth and Hamlet
Fintan O'Toole

New Island Books, 1995

A Fair Day

1 review
Fintan O'Toole

Salem House Publishers, 1985

1 of the 2 early Parr B&W offerings. Highly coveted work.
This and Bad Weather were Martin Parr's two first major early 80's books, and both were done in a medium he no longer uses: Black & White. Parr's unrelenting use of color beginning in the mid 80's would spark a turn in his work where he would never look back. In this book, (full title: A Fair Day, Photographs from the West of Ireland) we get a documentary side of Parr which would carry on to ...

Rethinking the War on Drugs in Ireland (Undercurrents)
Tim Murphy

Cork University Press, 1996

This paper presents an argument for the legalization of psychoactive drugs that are currently prohibited by law. Drawing on international drug policy research, the author examines the Irish policy in its historical, medical, social and political context. The legitimacy of current policy is severely undermined by such an examination, and the ineffectiveness of the "war" suggests that new options must be considered.

Irish Art Now

1 review
Declan McGonagle, Fintan O'Toole

Merrell, 1999

Ireland has great contemporary art
Irish Art Now looks closesly at the changing culture of Ireland and how it is effecting the artists working there. Ireland is producing some fabulous new artists and this book does an execellent job of highlighting their talents and motivations. You'll love it.

The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities
Fintan O'Toole

Verso, 1998

The Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Ireland's fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between Europe and America, Ireland has redefined itself in the 1990s. Fintan O'Toole highlights the contradictions and the mythologies at work in Ireland's ever-changing idea of itself.

Black Hole, Green Card: The Disappearance of Ireland

1 review
Fintan O'Toole

New Island Books, 1994

Loved it
This book was great, I would never of been able to uderstand this kind of technology if I didn't read this book. It really describes a black hole well.

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