We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland O'Toole Fintan
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland O'Toole Fintan A quarter-century after Frank McCourt's extraordinary bestseller, Angela's Ashes, Fintan O'Toole, one of the Anglophone…
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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland O'Toole Fintan
A quarter-century after Frank McCourt's extraordinary bestseller, Angela's Ashes, Fintan O'Toole, one of the Anglophone world's most consummate stylists, continues the narrative of modern Ireland into our own time. It was 1958, and the Irish government--in despair, because all the young people were leaving--opened the country to foreign investment. O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began.
A sympathetic-yet-exacting observer, O'Toole shrewdly weighs more than sixty years of globalization, delving into the violence of the Troubles and depicting, in biting detail, the astonishing So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity.Weaving his own experiences into this account of Irish social, cultural, and economic change, O'Toole shows how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a Catholic "backwater" to an almost totally open society.
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