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Fintan O'Toole, "We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland"

Fintan O'Toole, "We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland"

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Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government--in despair, because all the young people were leaving--opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In [this book], O'Toole, one of the Anglophone world's most consummate stylists, weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary 'backwater' to an almost totally open society--perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history