Born to a working-class family in the Dublin suburbs, Fintan O’Toole would learn to become a remarkably compassionate yet exacting observer whose We Don’t Know Ourselves is both a memoir and a national history that ultimately reveals how the two modes are entwined for all of us.
“[A] chronicle, personal and historical, of the profound changes that have come to [O’Toole’s] homeland in his lifetime…A superb illustration of how the personal is the political and can be the universal.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Professor O’Toole is a columnist for the Irish Times and a professor at Princeton University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the Guardian, as well as the bestselling author of The Politics of Pain and other books, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and Dublin, Ireland.
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