Friday 7th June. 2.15 pm in The Wren’s Nest DOUBLE TROUBLE: Margaret E Atwood (Old Babes in the Wood) and @Deborah Levy (August Blue) on living through uncertainty, writing between darkness and light. Introduced by Fintan O'Toole

Fintan O'Toole: Have we ditched the Stardust-era stereotype that the working classes are wild and reckless? irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Saw this brilliant show tonight. It's startling and moving wonderfully well performed. Catch it if you can.
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A few months ago, I highlighted this disgusting site opposite the Coombe Hospital. I went digging to find out what the state of play is there. Read it and weep.
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Looking forward to this conversation this evening about Martin's brilliant book.
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Well done Mary Mary Burke and UConn Looking forward to Martin in conversation tomorrow Thursday at 7pm with Fintan O'Toole at Glucksman Ireland House NYU Glucksman Ireland House NYU New York University Fintan O'Toole Martin Doyle The Irish Times The Irish TimesBooks

Fine Gael’s choice to replace a property-owning democracy with a rent-paying one has unsettled a generation irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Analysis: Jeffrey Donaldson’s disgraced departure is only the beginning of a crisis

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The poet Michael Coady has died aged 84 following an illness surrounded by his devoted family. We, at The Gallery Press will miss him sorely. We send our deepest sympathy to Martina, James, Niamh and Lucy.

Fintan O’Toole: Simon Harris has risen without trace, another case of survival of the smoothest irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

If you're curious to learn about #housing in the first decade of the Irish Free State, the website accompanying my Royal Irish Academy funded exhibition is now live! Housingthepeople.ie

Our 3/21 issue is now online, with Gary Younge on Britain’s woes, Joshua Hammer on Iraq’s disintegration, Jessica Riskin on Darwin’s letters, Verlyn Klinkenborg on dust’s might, Linda Greenhouse on progress & the Court, Fintan O'Toole on Trump’s “jokes,” & more. go.nybooks.com/4bVOhvr

“Trump brings all this comic doubleness—the confusion of the real and the performative, of character and caricature—to bear on the authoritarian persona of the caudillo, the duce, the strongman savior.” —Fintan O'Toole go.nybooks.com/49Q8xx2

This Fintan O'Toole piece is by some distance the best thing I've read on Trump, and why his success baffles so many of us liberals. 'The importance of not being earnest is that it defines the boundaries of the tribe. The earnest are the enemy.'
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Twitter is sometimes repulsive, sometimes inspiring and this is one of the latter: here we can watch the funeral of #Navalny is real time.... & celebrate real courage not just in him but in all these brave people daring to attend his funeral under the jackboot of brutal tyranny

Many languages come to America. Many languages. How do they get here? Dirigible? Aero-trolley? Catamaran? I don't know.

.Ross Perlin he read your book “Language City” 🫣🫣🫣

Listen in as David Runciman and I begin our march through critical American elections and the ideas that animated them: 1800 today with 1828, 1860, 1896, 1912, 1936, 1980, and 2008 to come in future podcasts. Getting ready for 2024...

The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature resume in March at Emory University with Natasha Trethewey and Fintan O'Toole. Their lectures will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Seamus Heaney, the first Ellmann Lecturer news.emory.edu/features/2024/…

'Starmer is trying to be at once the evangelist and the comforter, an agent of radical transformation and a symbol of solidity.'

Fintan O’Toole (Fintan O'Toole) on the man who would be prime minister the-tls.co.uk/articles/keir-…