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# Blair's book tour kicks off with a bang
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/blairs-book-tour-kicks-off-with-bang/
- Published: 2010-09-04T16:09:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-22T09:45:42.000Z
- Description: There was an angry reception for Tony Blair at a book signing in Dublin today. In the kind of scenes the ex-Prime Minister is likely to encounter throughout his book tour, angry anti-war protesters pelted Blair with eggs and shoes.
- Author: Guy Aitchison
- Tags: Conflict & security, #Migrated, Europe, United Kingdom, UK, conflict, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 15:45, #appended-excerpt

There was an angry reception for Tony Blair at a book signing in Dublin today. In the kind of scenes the ex-Prime Minister is likely to encounter throughout his book tour, angry anti-war protesters pelted Blair with eggs and shoes. One heroic demonstrator, Katie O'Sullivan, managed to get past security and attempted a citizen's arrest on Blair before five of his team jumped on her. See this [Al Jazeera](http://english.aljazeera.net//video/europe/2010/09/20109414012490770.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) video:

Next week Blair's book tour reaches Waterstones in London's Piccadilly where he can expect [another warm welcome](http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2038/1/?ref=opendemocracy.net) from the anti-war lobby.

**Update:** And here is an interview with Katie herself (note the description of the extraordinary security precautions taken to protect Blair, far more hard-core than anything Robert Harris imagined!)

There was an angry reception for Tony Blair at a book signing in Dublin today. In the kind of scenes the ex-Prime Minister is likely to encounter throughout his book tour, angry anti-war protesters pelted Blair with eggs and shoes.