“We Don't Know Ourselves” by Fintan O'Toole
For the month of September, we (re)schedule the Protected content “We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since Protected content by Irish journalist and critic Fintan O'Toole.
It was selected as one of The New York Times's "10 Best Books of Protected content list and won the Protected content of the Year award at the Irish Book Awards.
The book combines aspects of history, memoir, reporting, political commentary and criticism to present a portrait of Ireland from Protected content the present day.
Description from Goodreads:
“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. 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 collapse of the once-supreme Irish Catholic Church. The result is a stunning work of memoir and national history that reveals how the two modes are inextricable for all of us.”
625 pages
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