Fintan O’Toole — We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
When:
Friday, Mar 18, 2022 3:00p -
4:30p
Friday, Mar 18, 2022 3:00p -
4:30p
Where:
Boston Public Library: Abbey Room
700 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02116
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
History, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6202e278cafb9b2f0083ffd5
Irish Times columnist and one of the Anglophone world’s most consummate stylists will be in conversation with Boston Public Library President David Leonard about how his new book weaves his own experiences into the social, cultural, and economic changes that Ireland has been facing since 1958.
This program will now happen both in the Abbey Room at the Central Library in Copley Square and online over Zoom webinar. To attend in-person, please visit the Registration Instructions box on the Event website. To attend online, please visit this link: https://boston-public-library.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jcWMygWAS9uqnHUP8579AA.
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
A book signing facilitated by one of the BPL's independent bookstore partners, Trident Booksellers and Cafe, will follow the discussion. Online attendees can purchase copies from them by visiting this link (https://www.tridentbookscafe.com/event/bpl-event-fintan-o%E2%80%99toole) and using the coupon code BPLSHIP for free media mail delivery.
Fintan 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.
Please be preapred to follow any of the BPL's current COVID-19 health and safety policies, which are subject to change depending on guidance from the City of Boston and the Boston Public Health Commission.
