A New Ireland: How Europe`s Most Conservative Country Became Its Most Liberal 9781510749290

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Автор: O`Dowd Niall
Название: A New Ireland: How Europe`s Most Conservative Country Became Its Most Liberal
ISBN: 9781510749290
Издательство: Skyhorse Publishing
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История Британии и Ирландии

Политика и политический строй

Политические идеологии

ISBN-10: 1510749292
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 264
Вес: 0.27 кг.
Дата издания: 04.02.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 161 x 237 x 28
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: How europe`s most conservative country became its most liberal
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Its not your fathers Ireland. Not anymore.

In a May 2019 countrywide referendum, Ireland voted overwhelmingly to make abortion legal; three years earlier, it had done the same with same-sex marriage, becoming the only country in the world to pass such a law by universal suffrage. Pope Franciss visit to the country saw protests and a fraction of the emphatic welcome that Pope John Pauls had seen forty years earlier. There have been two female heads of state since 1990, the first two in Irelands history. Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, an openly gay man of Indian heritage, declared that a quiet revolution had taken place.

It had. For nearly all of its modern history, Ireland was Europes most conservative country. The Catholic Church was its most powerful institution and held power over all facets of Irish life. As recently as thirty years ago, Ireland was fighting bitterly over allowing condoms to be legal, and the best of the crozier remained a social and political death sentence.

But as scandal eroded the Churchs hold on Irish life, a new Ireland has flourished. War in the North has ended, with help of President Bill Clinton and his negotiator, George Mitchell. EU membership and an influx of American multinational corporations for tax benefits have helped Ireland weather economic depression and transform from a land of rural cottiers to Europes headquarters for Apple, Facebook, and Google.

With help from prominent Irish and Irish American voices like historian and bestselling author Tim Pat Coogan and the New York Timess Maureen Dowd, A New Ireland tells the story of a modern revolution against all odds.

A New Ireland: How Europe`s Most Conservative Country Became Its Most Liberal, O`Dowd Niall