'A chronicle for our times': Journalist Fintan O'Toole scoops Book of the Year award

The journalist won for We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland since 1958
'A chronicle for our times': Journalist Fintan O'Toole scoops Book of the Year award

Fintan O’Toole with the An Post Irish Book of the Year award yesterday which he won for ‘We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland since 1958’. Picture: Barry Cronin

A book by journalist Fintan O'Toole has received the top award at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland since 1958 by O’Toole was named An Post Irish Book of the Year 2021 during a one-hour special television show hosted by Oliver Callan on RTÉ One on Wednesday night.

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