We don't know ourselves : a personal history of Ireland since 1958
O'Toole, Fintan, 1958-2022
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Fintan O'Toole, Ireland's leading public intellectual, tells a history of Ireland in his own time - an 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.
Main title:
We don't know ourselves : a personal history of Ireland since 1958 / Fintan O'Toole.
Author:
O'Toole, Fintan, 1958-, author
Imprint:
London : Head of Zeus, 2022.
Collation:
616 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
"An Apollo book."Originally published: 2021.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781784978341 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
941.7082941.708
Language:
English
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BRN:
2253724
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