Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole tells Lawrence O’Donnell that people in Ireland are “genuinely feeling pity for the U.S.” ...

“We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958” by Fintan O’Toole is the February selection for the IrishCentral Book Club. Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great ...

In the Dublin neighborhood where Fintan O’Toole grew up during the 1960s, the roads were laid out in the shape of a Celtic cross. Though I know the area well I never knew this and I daresay few of the ...

“Ouch!” You’ll say that more than once when reading Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves. American readers familiar with O’Toole from his reviews in The New York Review of Books or his work as a ...

Frankly, I don’t know what women see in me. But I have got through more of them than King Henry VIII. My first wife was “the actress Siân Phillips”. She and I had two daughters together – Kate and ...

It's possible over the course of just one lifetime to see the world you've grown up in and all of its certainties stood on their head. That happened to the generation that grew up in the 1960s in ...

What do you get when you cross two Irish Times columnists? A fascinating first episode in the brand new season of the Conversation with Parents podcast. In this episode I sit down with renowned ...

Content warning: This piece contains mention of gun violence. Fintan O’Toole, an Irish Times columnist and the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Visiting Professor in Irish Letters, presented his talk “Against ...