Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole, an award-winning journalist, author, and leading public intellectual, will present “Political Heaney” at Boston College on November 16 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. O’Toole was recently appointed official biographer of the late Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney. His talk will open “Seamus Heaney: Afterlives,” Boston College’s international symposium marking the 10th anniversary of the poet’s death. O’Toole is the author numerous books, including We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland; Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain; and Ship of Fools: How Stupidity And Corruption Sank The Celtic Tiger. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is a winner of the European Press Prize and the Orwell Prize. O’Toole’s History of Ireland in 100 Objects, which covers 100 highly charged artifacts from the last 10,000 years, is currently the basis for Ireland’s postage stamps. O’Toole’s lecture is presented by the BC Lowell Humanities Lecture Series and is co-sponsored by the BC Irish Studies Program and with the support of an ILA Major Grant.