Dublin Book Festival, 9 November 2025
Great Irish Voices
Join us to explore two books illuminating great voices from Irish American history. Gratefully and Affectionately: Mary Lavin and the New Yorker (New Island) by Gráinne Hurley gives fascinating insight into Lavin’s 18-year working relationship with the publication, including her working relationship with its chief editor through the letters they wrote to each other. Gatsby: Death of an Irishman (Wordwell) by Patrick O’Sullivan Greene delivers a new, compelling insight into the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his complex, evolving and surprising relationship with his Irish heritage. The authors will be in conversation with journalist and author Ronan McGreevy.
Irish Echo, 17 July 2025
Novelist in search of an identity
O’Sullivan Greene told the Echo, “Underpinning Fitzgerald’s brilliant but turbulent life was his complex, evolving and surprising relationship with his Irish identity. From childhood shame at being ‘common’ to a patriotic immersion in Irish literature and revolutionary politics at Princeton. But the shame never went away, reinforced when the poor boy found he could not marry the rich girl.”
Irish Echo: The Oldest Irish American Newspaper in USA
Irish Independent, 9 July 2025
Kerry town hosts lively festival celebrating friendship between people of Ireland and America
At the Anam Arts and Cultural Centre, … the life and times of The Great Gatsby author, F Scott Fitzgerald, was brought to life through music, song and a guest lecture by Killarney author and historian Patrick O’Sullivan Greene, who has just released a biography on the life of Fitzgerald entitled Gatsby: Death of an Irishman.
Kerry town hosts lively festival celebrating friendship between people of Ireland and America
Irish Arts Minnesota, May 2025
Gatsby fans everywhere owe Patrick O’Sullivan Greene a debt of gratitude for his insightful biography of an American icon.
[The] book gave me that “aha! ” moment: not only was Gatsby perceived as a parvenu, but Fitzgerald himself lived in dread of being exposed as less than he projected himself to be, because he was Irish (which he denied being, at various times). It all clicks into place once you’re looking at it. And because of Fitzgerald’s Irishness, he created one of the most brilliant characters in American literature: flawed, charismatic, self-destructive, doomed Jay Gatsby. Readers and Gatsby fans everywhere owe Patrick O’Sullivan Greene a debt of gratitude for his insightful biography of an American icon. – Sherry Ladig
Irish Echo, April 2025
F. Scott Fitzgerald and all that jazz centerstage in Twin Cities for Great Gatsby centenary.
Award-winning Irish historian Patrick O’Sullivan Greene presents the North American release of his new book, Gatsby: Death of an Irishman – F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Search for Identity. This groundbreaking study explores how Fitzgerald’s Irish Catholic heritage influenced the creation of Jay Gatsby, shaping themes of self-invention, ambition, and cultural conflict. The evening will include a reading and author discussion, followed by a reception.
Irish Echo, F. Scott Fitzgerald and all that jazz
Irish Stew Podcast, 7 April 2025
Gatsby: Death of an Irishman
Patrick peels back the intricate layers of Fitzgerald’s character, revealing the underlying themes of identity and self-rejection in his work, his shifting views of Irish issues, and how his personal battles influenced his writing and contributed to his tragic life.
Irish Central, 17 September 2024
This Side of Paradise: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Judge Cohalan, and the Irish Revolution.
During the socially turbulent and unusually sweltering summer of 1919, the 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald reworked “This Side of Paradise”, the novel that turned him into an overnight sensation and launched the Jazz Age. He writes that Amory Blaine, his self-modelled protagonist, suspects that being Irish is “somewhat common.”
RTE Brainstorm, 22 August 2024
Why are we so fascinated by Michael Collins?
Opinion: ‘Death positivity bias’ may explain why the revolutionary leader continues to captivate our imagination a century after his assassination
Monaco Life, 17 January 2024
Interview: Author Patrick O’Sullivan Greene and unravelling Princess Grace’s Irish roots.
Discover the captivating journey of Princess Grace’s Irish heritage in our interview with Patrick O’Sullivan Greene, as he prepares to unveil the intertwined tales of Irish American resilience and royalty in his upcoming lecture at the Princess Grace Irish Library.
The Irish Baseball Podacast, 18 July 2023
Host Rick Becker talks to Patrick O’Sullivan Greene, author of ‘Revolution at the Waldorf: America and the Irish War of Independence’, about the political and social maelstrom into which the Irish mission arrived in America in 1919; including the Black Sox , the League of Nations debate and the character assassination of Cohalan and Devoy by the enigmatic William Moloney and de Valera.
The Business, RTE Radio 1, 10 December 2022
This very weekend in 1920, Eamon De Valera left America after 18 months of raising money for the New Irish Free State. How successful was our former President?
Patrick O’Sullivan Greene has been looking at this in his new book ‘Revolution at the Waldorf: America and the Irish War of Independence’.
Radio Kerry, 1 December 2022
Discussing the new book by Killarney man Patrick O’Sullivan Greene which examines the role Irish America played in funding our independence.
The David McWilliams Podcast, 23 August 2022
Talking with David and John about Michael Collins; his alternative vision for Ireland and messaging that still resonates today. We discuss his setting up of a national bank, stemming the flow of capital to London, supporting business and marketing Ireland at home and abroad.
Financing a Revolution: The economics of Michael Collins
The Currency, 20 August 2022
A revolutionary seeking opportunity: Michael Collins and a vision of a free and entrepreneurial Ireland
While some were fighting for the dead and future generations, Collins asked, ‘Have we any duty to the present generation?’. My piece in The Currency on Michael Collins and his search for the one thing he wanted: ‘a fair chance to get ahead.’
President Higgins receives Patrick O’Sullivan Greene on a courtesy call, 18 January 2022
Patrick O’Sullivan Greene from Killarney, Co Kerry, presented President Michael D. Higgins with a copy of his book ‘Crowdfunding the Revolution: The First Dáil Loan and the Battle for Irish Independence’ at a courtesy call at Áras an Uachtaráin.
The Business, RTE Radio 1, 22 October 2021
Michael Collins was the country’s Finance Minister from 1919 to 1921.
Patrick O’Sullivan Greene, author of Crowdfunding the Revolution, discusses the revolutionary leader and his financial feats with The Business.
New Hibernia Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, Autumn 2022
Reviewed by: Professor Francis M. Carroll
“[He] has skillfully mined the documentary resources that have become accessible in the last thirty years…This is a very important book.”
History Ireland Podcast, September 2021
Dáil Éireann sought not only to take back the political control lost in the 1800 Act of Union, but also the fiscal and monetary powers lost with the merger of the Irish and British exchequers in 1817. It also established a parallel legal system, the ‘Dáil Courts’, and, especially after the local elections of 1920, sought to control local government. To assess the success of these efforts join History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, in discussion with John Borgonovo, Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, Patrick O’Sullivan Greene, and Brian Hughes.
History Ireland Magazine, March – April 2021
Review by: Paschal Donohoe, Minister for Finance
“The quality of writing and the pace of storytelling ensure that this is not a niche or specialist work of history. This is a compelling read. I wish I had written it myself.”
Talking History With Patrick Geoghegan, March 2021
This week Patrick covers the best in Irish and International history publications for March 2021. Books covered on the show include: ‘Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in WW2’ with Marc Gallicchio, ‘Whitman in Washington’ with Kenneth M Price, ‘Crime and Punishment in 19th Century Belfast: The Story of John Linn’ with Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, ‘The Tale of a Great Sham’ with Margaret Ward and Dana Hearne’ and ‘Crowdfunding the Revolution: The Dail Loan and the Battle for Irish Independence’ with Patrick O’ Sullivan Green.
Irish Times, 6 November 2020
Michael Collins: a genius for sums as well as guns: As minister for finance, he crowdfunded a revolution with huge vision and work ethic to match
Dublin Book Festival, 29 November 2020
Join Irish Times journalist, author of numerous historical works, and videographer, Ronan McGreevy, in conversation with award-winning equity analyst, Chartered Accountant, and author, Patrick O’Sullivan Greene. In the apt surrounds of the National Library of Ireland, they will discuss Patrick’s new book, Crowdfunding the Revolution: The Dáil Loan and the Battle for Irish Independence (Eastwood).
Irish Times, 4 April 2019
A century on: the Dáil loan that set the State on road to financial sovereignty. Michael Collins began an audacious plan on April 4th, 1919, to appeal to people to fund an underground government
