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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: 'Writing and Politics' By Fintan O'Toole
Description: Recorded December 4, 2019.
A public lecture Fintan O’Toole to mark being awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Trinity College Dublin
About Fintan O’Toole (Litt.D.)
Fintan O’ Toole is a columnist with the Irish Times, visiting lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University and former drama critic and literary adviser to the Abbey Theatre. He is internationally respected as a drama critic, a political and cultural commentator and public intellectual. Among his books, his Tom Murphy: the Politics of Magic (1987 and 1994) remains the most authoritative study of the subject. His most recent book is Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pai...