We don`t know ourselves, O`toole, Fintan

Автор: O`Toole Fintan
Название: Enough is Enough
ISBN: 0571270093 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571270095
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Описание: That brief burst of good fortune was destroyed by a corrupt political class which encouraged a wild property boom, leaving the country almost bankrupt. What Ireland needs now is a programme of real change.

Автор: O`Toole Fintan
Название: We Don`t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
ISBN: 1631496530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631496530
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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 We Don't Know Ourselves, 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.

Born to a working-class family in the Dublin suburbs, O'Toole served as an altar boy and attended a Christian Brothers school, much as his forebears did. He was enthralled by American Westerns suddenly appearing on Irish television, which were not that far from his own experience, given that Ireland's main export was beef and it was still not unknown for herds of cattle to clatter down Dublin's streets. Yet the Westerns were a sign of what was to come. O'Toole narrates the once unthinkable collapse of the all-powerful Catholic Church, brought down by scandal and by the activism of ordinary Irish, women in particular. He relates the horrific violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which led most Irish to reject violent nationalism. In O'Toole's telling, America became a lodestar, from John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit, when the soon-to-be martyred American president was welcomed as a native son, to the emergence of the Irish technology sector in the late 1990s, driven by American corporations, which set Ireland on the path toward particular disaster during the 2008 financial crisis.

A remarkably compassionate yet exacting observer, O'Toole in coruscating prose captures the peculiar Irish habit of "deliberate unknowing," which allowed myths of national greatness to persist even as the foundations were crumbling. Forty years in the making, We Don't Know Ourselves is a landmark work, a memoir and a national history that ultimately reveals how the two modes are entwined for all of us.

Автор: OToole Fintan
Название: Up the Republic!
ISBN: 0571289010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571289011
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: Features historians, lawyers, economists and writers who come together to put a coherent case: that although the Irish economic collapse has resulted in national humiliation, renewed emigration and a decline in living standards for the majority of the population, there is still hope that the country can be reformed and renewed.

Автор: O`toole, Fintan
Название: Heroic failure
ISBN: 1789540992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789540994
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Описание: A mordantly funny and perceptive book about the act of national self-harm known as Brexit. A great democratic country tears itself apart, and engages in the dangerous pleasures of national masochism.

Автор: O`toole, Fintan
Название: Three years in hell
ISBN: 1838937838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838937836
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Описание: Three years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the election of Boris Johnson.

Автор: Fintan O`toole, O`toole
Название: Three years in hell
ISBN: 1838935215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838935214
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Описание: Three years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the election of Boris Johnson.

Автор: O`Toole, Fintan
Название: White Savage
ISBN: 0571218407 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571218400
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Описание: When war broke out between the French and English - what we now know as the 7 Years War, the first world war in history - Johnson held the fate of the British Empire in his hands.

Автор: O`toole, Fintan
Название: Ship of fools
ISBN: 0571260756 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571260751
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Описание: For twenty years, Ireland`s economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. For years, those with economic power had been investing in a gigantic property bubble. In Ship of Fools Fintan O`Toole tells the story of this dizzying rise and sickening fall. This is the essential analysis of Ireland`s economic suicide.