Meanwhile back at the ranch: the politics of Irish beef, Fintan O'Toole, Vintage, 1995, 0099514516, 9780099514510, 292 pages. .

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Fintan O'Toole was born in 1958. He was editor of Magill magazine and is currently a columnist with Irish Times. He is also a regular presenter of the BBC's Late Show. His books inlcude The Politics of Magic: the Theatre of Tom Murphy; No More Heroes; A Mass for Jesse James and Black Hole, Green Card. He was Irish Journalist of the Year 1993 for his coverage of the enquiry into the relations between the Irish Government and the Irish beef industry.

I had just finished re-reading this book when the horsemeat story hid the headlines. Ah well, how history repeats itself, I thought. I didn't realise till later how true this was. Larry Goodman, principal actor in O'Toole's drama, is right in the thick of it, though it isn't obvious from your average news report. If the Irish government had heeded O'Toole's warning and had Goodman locked up for fraud the world would be a better place today. A thoroughly recommended read. Maybe time to launch a reprint as the book is highly relevant to the present crisis.

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Fintan O'Toole (born 1958) is a columnist, literary editor, and drama critic for The Irish Times.[1][2] He has written for the paper since 1988 and was drama critic for the New York Daily News from 1997 to 2001 and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He is an author, literary critic, historical writer, and political commentator, with generally left-wing views. His recent books have focused on the rise, fall & aftermath of Ireland's 'Celtic Tiger'.[3] He has been a strong critic of political corruption in Ireland throughout his career.

O'Toole was born in Dublin on February 16th 1958 and educated at Scoil Iosagan and Colaiste Caoimhin in Crumlin (both run by the Christian Brothers) and at University College Dublin, where he studied English and Philosophy. He became drama critic of In Dublin magazine in 1980. He joined The Sunday Tribune on its relaunch by Vincent Browne in 1983 and worked as its drama critic, literary editor, arts editor and feature writer. From 1986 to 1987, he edited Magill magazine. He joined The Irish Times as a columnist in 1988 and his columns have appeared twice weekly ever since. In 1990-1991, he took a sabbatical to work as Literary Adviser to the Abbey Theatre. In 1994, he was one of the presenters for the last season of BBC TV's The Late Show. From 1997 to 2001 he was drama critic of the Daily News in New York. In 2011, he began a three-year appointment as Leonard L. Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton, spending the spring in the US and continuing to spend the rest of the year in Ireland. In 2011, he was appointed as literary editor of The Irish Times. O'Toole has criticised what he sees as negative attitudes towards immigration in Ireland, the state of Ireland's public services, growing inequality during Ireland's economic boom,[9] the Iraq War and the US military's use of Shannon Airport, among many other issues. In 2006, he spent six months reporting for The Irish Times in China.[10]

His former editor, Geraldine Kennedy, was paid more than the editor of the UK's top non-tabloid newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which has a circulation about nine times that of The Irish Times. Later, O'Toole told the rival Irish paper, the Sunday Independent: "We as a paper are not shy of preaching about corporate pay and fat cats but with this there is a sense of excess. Some of the sums mentioned are disturbing. This is not an attack on Ms Kennedy, it is an attack on the executive level of pay. There is double-standard of seeking more job cuts while paying these vast salaries."[11]

O'Toole authored an abortion related piece in November 2012 about the death of Savita Halappanavar (when she was 17 weeks pregnant and miscarried in an Irish Hospital) calling it a "a shameful departure from civilised norms", the case drew global media coverage and protests in several countries in addition to Ireland.[13] issued a life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (A Traitor’s Kiss, 1997), and The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities (1998), being a collection of his Irish Times essays; issued White Savage: William Johnston and the invention of America (2005), on the 18th c. early American from Co. Meath; has introduced Methuen play collections by Tom Murphy, Sebastian Barry, Martin MacDonagh and Dermot Bolger; served as drama [Broadway] critic for New York Daily News, 1997-2001; received Millenium Social Inclusion Award, 2000;

5 Oct. 2000: ‘Are the Troubles Over?’, review of Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles Square by David McKittrick, by Seamus Kelters, by Brian Feeney, by Chris Thornton; Ireland North and South: Perspectives from Social Science edited by Anthony F. Heath, edited by Richard Breen, edited by Christopher T. Whelan; The Trouble with Guns: Republican Strategy and the Provisional IRA by Malachi O’Doherty; Northern Ireland’s Troubles: The Human Costs by Marie-Therese Fay, Mike Morrissey & Marie Smyth , and Those Are Real Bullets, Aren’t They? Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972 by Peter Pringle & Philip Jacobson

7 Oct. 1999: ‘Our Own Jacobean’, review of Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics by Harold Pinter; Ashes to Ashes a play by Pinter, directed by Karel Reisz at the Gramercy Theater, New York, January 19-April 25, 1999; The Hothouse a play by Pinter, directed by Karen Kohlhaas at the Atlantic Theater, New York, February 25-March 27, 1999; The Proust Screenplay: Remembrance of Things Past by Pinter

Gerry Smyth, The Novel and the Nation: Studies in New Irish Fiction (London: Pluto 1997): cites O’Toole on the prioritisation of the rural in the definition of Irishness. ‘Going West: The City Versus the Country in Irish Writing’, Crane Bag, Vol. 9, No. 2 1985, cp.113; also, ‘For the last hundred years, Irish culture and in particular Irish writing has been marked by this dominance of the rural over the urban, a dominance based on a false opposition of the country to the city which has been vital to the maintenance of a conservative political culture in the country.’ (ibid., p.111; Smyth, p.61.)

Angela Bourke, reviewing The Ex-Isle of Erin: Images of Global Ireland (New Island Books 1997), comments on courageous essay on Tony (A. J. F.) O’Reilly in the tradition of his work on the ; notes essays on Michael Flatley (‘smash and grab’ approach to Celticity), and sections entitled ‘The Way We Were’ and ‘The Way We Are’; disparages his attitude to Irish as a dead language.

Tony Canavan, review of The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities (New Island) in Books Ireland (March 1999), pp.62-63; questions the premises and therefore the conclusions of several essays (‘Meanwhile Back at the Ranch’, with its supposition that Billy the Kid was Irish; considers that the book shows too many ideas and not enough thought.

Conor McCarthy, Modernisation: Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969-1992 (Dublin: Four Courts Press 2000), writes of Raven Arts and associated writers: ‘O’Toole is the most important of these intellectuals, as a columnist with The Irish Times, contributor to the international liberal press, presenter of The Late Show on BBC 2 television, member of the editorial board of Fortnight, a cross-Border political and cultural magazine. [...] O’Toole writes as a polymath intellectual, as happy emulating the semiology of Umberto Eco or Roland Barthes as discussing education policy or party politics. He is familiar with intellectual trends such as poststructuralism or second-wave feminism or Frankfurt School Marxism, though the dominant ideological position for these intellectuals consists in their sense of having left Irish nationalism behind. [... &c.] (p.139; see also under Dermot Bolger, infra.)

Irish Identity: ‘[T]he only fixed Irish identity and the only useful Irish tradition is the tradition of not having a fixed identity’ (p.14); ‘Ireland is a diaspora, and as such is both a real place and a remembered place, both the far west of Europe and the home back east of the Irish-American. Ireland is something that happens elsewhere’ (p.27); ‘present-day Irishness ... a bizarre accumulation of heterodox imaginings’ (Black Hole, Green Card, 1994, p.53.) http://edufb.net/509.pdf http://edufb.net/791.pdf http://edufb.net/659.pdf http://edufb.net/909.pdf http://edufb.net/106.pdf http://edufb.net/177.pdf http://edufb.net/1069.pdf http://edufb.net/73.pdf http://edufb.net/557.pdf http://edufb.net/272.pdf http://edufb.net/160.pdf http://edufb.net/479.pdf http://edufb.net/949.pdf http://edufb.net/142.pdf