Why the Irish Are a Mystery Unto Themselves

Fintan O’Toole is one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals, as a columnist for The Irish Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The Guardian and as the Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Professor in Irish Letters at Princeton University. Through his writing, O’Toole has provided some of the sharpest critiques of post-Brexit Britain. His most recent book, We Don’t Know Ourselves, is a brilliantly original account of the making of modern Ireland from the dead hand of the Catholic Church to the legalisation of gay marriage.

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Maxine McKew is Hon Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. A former ABC and Bulletin journalist, as well as a former Federal Labor MP, McKew can rightly claim to be among the first of the modern political disrupters, having defeated prime minister John Howard in the seat of Bennelong in 2007. She has written two books: Tales from the Political Trenches and Class Act.

Fintan O'Toole is an Irish Times columnist and writer. His books include We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain, and Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger. A member of the Royal Irish Academy, he is a winner of the European Press Prize and the Orwell Prize. He is also professor of Irish letters at Princeton University.

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