We Don t Know Ourselves 1st Edition by Fintan O Toole ISBN 1784978299 9781784978280

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ISBN 10: 1784978299
ISBN 13: 9781784978280
Author: Fintan O Toole

The #1 Irish Times bestseller
WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards
‘A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece’ Marian Keyes
‘Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent’ Colm Tóibín, Guardian
‘With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel’ Irish Times
‘Evocative, moving, funny and furious’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
‘An enthralling, panoramic book’ Patrick Radden Keefe
‘A book that will remain important for a very long time’ An Post Irish Book Award
We Don’t Know Ourselves is a very personal vision of recent Irish history from the year of O’Toole’s birth, 1958, down to the present. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during those decades, and Fintan O’Toole’s life coincides with that arc of transformation. The book is a brilliant interweaving of memories (though this is emphatically not a memoir) and engrossing social and historical narrative. This was the era of Eamon de Valera, Jack Lynch, Charles Haughey and John Charles McQuaid, of sectarian civil war in the North and the Pope’s triumphant visit in 1979, but also of those who began to speak out against the ruling consensus – feminists, advocates for the rights of children, gay men and women coming out of the shadows. We Don’t Know Ourselves is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand modern Ireland

We Don t Know Ourselves 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: The Ireland I Was Born Into

1. The World of Certainties

2. Church, State, and Fear

3. The Closed Society

4. America and the Dream of Escape

5. The Quiet Revolution Begins

Part II: Cracks in the System

6. Education and the New Ireland

7. The Church in Crisis

8. Northern Ireland and the Troubles

9. The Politics of Denial

10. Economic Stagnation and Emigration

Part III: Transformation

11. The Celtic Tiger Awakens

12. Boom, Bust, and Bailout

13. Scandals of the Church and State

14. Changing Values and New Freedoms

15. The Power of the Media

Part IV: The Modern Republic

16. Marriage Equality and Social Change

17. Women, Choice, and the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment

18. The Irish Abroad: Identity Reimagined

19. The Brexit Challenge

20. The Future of Ireland

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