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Enough is Enough : How to Build a New Republic by Fintan O'Toole
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment by American and European companies, and a welcoming tax regime, created the 'Celtic Tiger' of the 1990s. That brief burst of good fortune was destroyed by a ...Show more
Heroic Failure by Fintan O'Toole
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
England's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's 'If' , says that triumph and disaster are the same thing. It also enjoins the English to 'lose, and start again at your beginnings/ And never breathe a word about your loss.' Most modern English heroics are screw-ups, retreats or disasters: the charge of the L ...Show more
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit narrative'David Miliband. 'Hugely entertaining and engrossing'Roddy Doyle. 'Best book about the ...Show more
Three Years In Hell - The Brexit Chronicles by Fintan O'Toole
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of Heroic Failure. Three Years in Hellis a mordantly funny and perceptive account of three years in our troubled islands, leading up to the aftermath of Brexit (or not, as it may prove). It includes scathing portraits of the leading ...Show more
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The #1 Irish Times bestseller. WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards. 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Tóibín, Guardian 'With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel and the edge of a fine sword' Diarmaid Ferriter ...Show more
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Fintan O'Toole - Ireland's leading public intellectual and author of Heroic Failure - tells a history of Ireland in his own time - a brilliant interweaving of memoir and historical narrative. Fintan O'Toole was born in 1958, and so his life covers Ireland's journey out of underdevelopment and dominatio ...Show more
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