Fintan O’Toole is a columnist for The Irish Times and is the Milberg Professor of Irish Letters at Princeton University. He also writes regularly for the Guardian, New York Review of Books, New York Times and other British and American journals. He is the author of over 20 acclaimed books spanning Irish history, politics, social affairs and theatre. His latest book, the best-selling We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 was winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year.