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Fintan O'Toole
Born
in Dublin, Ireland
January 01, 1958
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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
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published
2021
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15 editions
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Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
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published
2018
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16 editions
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Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
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published
2009
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14 editions
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Shakespeare is Hard, But So is Life: A Radical Guide to Shakespearian Tragedy
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2002
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6 editions
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Three Years in Hell
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A History of Ireland in 100 Objects
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published
2013
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3 editions
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White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America
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published
2005
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9 editions
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Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic
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published
2010
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6 editions
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25 Years of Irish Life Through the Columns of Fintan O'Toole
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published
2014
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A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816
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published
1997
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4 editions
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“This may be the last stage of imperialism–having appropriated everything else from its colonies, the dead empire appropriates the pain of those it has oppressed.”
― Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
― Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
“Why, then, were there no photographs of Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl holding hands at the Brandenburg Gate to match the pictures of Kohl and François Mitterrand at Verdun in 1984? Because Thatcher literally carried in her handbag maps showing German expansion under the Nazis. This was a mental cartography that English conservatism could not transcend – the map of a Europe that may no longer exist in reality but within which its imagination remains imprisoned. ‘Europe,’ Barnett writes, ‘moved on from the Second World War and Britain didn’t.’ One might go so far as to say that England never got over winning the war.”
― Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
― Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
“Even as a game of chance, however, Brexit is especially odd. It is a surreal casino in which the high-rollers are playing for pennies at the blackjack tables while the plebs are stuffing their life savings into the slot machines. For those who can afford risk, there is very little on the table; for those who cannot, entire livelihoods are at stake. The backbench anti-Brexit Tory MP Anna Soubry rose to her feet in the Commons in July 2018, eyed her Brexiteer colleagues and let fly: ‘Nobody voted to be poorer, and nobody voted Leave on the basis that somebody with a gold-plated pension and inherited wealth would take their jobs away from them.’ But if that’s not what people voted for, it is emphatically what they got: if the British army on the Western Front were lions led by donkeys, Brexit is those who feel they have nothing to lose led by those who will lose nothing either way.”
― Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
― Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
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