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Fintan O'Toole

"The book is typical O'Toole: funny, sharp, and guaranteed to enrage huge numbers of folk…. O'Toole gets under the skins of people who need to be annoyed."

- Sally McKenna on Enough is Enough.

Fintan O'Toole is one of Ireland's leading political, social and cultural commentators. Born in Dublin in 1958 where he now lives with his family, Fintan is Assistant Editor of the Irish Times where he has been a regular columnist for more than 20 years. He is a former editor of Magill and was a drama critic for the In Dublin magazine, The Sunday Tribune the New York Daily News. He has also been Literary Advisor to the Abbey Theatre. His work has appeared in many international newspapers and magazines including The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Granta, The Guardian, the New York Times and the Washington Post. Awards include the AT Cross Award for Supreme Contribution to Irish Journalism (1993), the Justice Award of the Incorporated Law Society (1994) and the Millennium Social Inclusion Award (2000). He has also broadcast extensively in Ireland the UK, including a period as presenter of BBC's The Late Show. His most recent books include Enough is Enough: How to build a New Republic and Ship of Fools: How stupidity and corruption sank the Celtic Tiger. Others include The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising, White Savage:William Johnson and the Invention of America; After the Ball; Shakespeare is hard but so is life; The Irish Times Book of the Century; A Traitor's Kiss; The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; The Life of the Land: Selected Essays; The Ex-Isle of Erin; Black Hole, Green Card; Meanwhile Back at the Ranch; A Mass for Jesse James and The Politics of Magic.

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