Books When statues fall What our long history of toppling monuments tells us about our divisive relationship with the past By Fintan O’Toole
How Brexit changed us: Politicians have forgotten the harms of muscle-flexing over Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is being used for proxy wars against the EU, as if the place has not had enough of… By Fintan O’Toole
The fatal delusions of Boris Johnson Boris Johnson believes that post-Brexit Britain is an exceptional, “world-beating” power. Yet it has proved itself incapable of fulfilling… By Fintan O’Toole
Britain must ditch post-imperial fantasies for a shot of sober realism – just as it did in 1975 God forbid that a leading Brexiteer should have to own the mess he has helped create. By Fintan O’Toole
Testing paternity: Colm Tóibín on the fathers that shaped Wilde, Joyce and Yeats How the complicated relationships between three writers and their fathers left its mark on Irish literature. By Fintan O’Toole