Here I Stand: Fintan O’Toole (Online Livestream)

On 8 November 1726, as James Gibbs’ spectacular St Martin-in-the-Fields had first opened its doors, the great Irish satirist and priest Jonathan Swift published his spectacular and absurdist literary hoax Gulliver’s Travels, an excoriating takedown of Greatness and colonial abuse. The great Irish journalist reads the contemporary world through its genius.

Fintan O’Toole has won the Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for his journalism and is the author of 20 books, including We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 and Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain.

Chaired by Peter Florence

This lecture is also happening in-person. For in-person tickets, visit here.

The suggested price for tickets is £10 to cover our costs, but free tickets are also available so as not to exclude anyone who would like to come. All are welcome.

The Autumn Lecture Series is working with the European Festivals Forest to plant trees to mitigate our carbon footprint. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed and already planted a hectare of mixed woodland, banking 700 metric tonnes of carbon.