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We Don't Know Ourselves

A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958

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We Don't Know Ourselves

Written by: Fintan O'Toole
Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
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Fintan O'Toole Ireland's leading public intellectual and author of Heroic Failure tells a history of Ireland in his own time a brilliant interweaving of memoir and historical narrative.

Fintan O'Toole was born in 1958, and so his life covers Ireland's journey out of underdevelopment and domination by the Church and the country's transformation into the relatively prosperous and tolerant society that it is today. But along the way there was a sectarian civil war in the North, which cast a dark shadow over the whole island, and bitter struggles for intellectual, civil and sexual freedoms. The Church fought a long rearguard action to defend its entrenched positions in education, healthcare and childcare. The truth about child abuse and institutional cruelty emerged only slowly, and women still had to die to make possible the liberalisation of Irish laws on contraception and divorce.

This is a very personal history by a writer who is considered by many to be the country's leading public intellectual. He was a participant in many of the controversies and and arguments of the past 35 years, and knew the leading literary, musical and political figures of those decades.

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A very personal history of Ireland.I have heard of Ireland as one of those rare european countries which had a draconian anti-abortion law and that’s what primed me to taste this book.

Gives you a basic idea about the country's current place in the world and we can also understand how it reached there.You can find at the core of it ,a community that want to become modern but that also doesn't want to shed its christian roots.Semitic religions are a bad news for the world and we can find the reasons for it in every chapter of this book.Read it to understand Ireland and its contradictions better.

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