Автор: O`Toole Fintan Название: We Don`t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland ISBN: 1631496530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631496530 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 29430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
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: Fintan O`toole, O`toole Название: Three years in hell ISBN: 1838935215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838935214 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 9890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Three years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the election of Boris Johnson.
Автор: O`Toole Fintan Название: Enough is Enough ISBN: 0571270093 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571270095 Издательство: Faber Рейтинг: Цена: 7910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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: OToole Fintan Название: Up the Republic! ISBN: 0571289010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571289011 Издательство: Faber Цена: 7910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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: Critical moments ISBN: 1904505031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781904505037 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 26270.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book shows that while globalization is a dominant force in society, and though news can be instantaneously broadcast internationally, there is relatively little commonality throughout the world in the depiction of events occurring in other countries. The research gathered here is based on a quantitative content analysis of over 17,000 news items and analysis of over 10,000 survey respondents.
England's recent lurch to the right appears to be but one example of the nationalist wave sweeping across the world, yet as acclaimed Irish critic Fintan O'Toole suggests in The Politics of Pain, it is, in reality, a phenomenon rooted in World War II. We must look not to the vagaries of the European Union but, instead, far back to the end of the British empire, if we hope to understand our most fraternal ally--and the royal mess in which the British now find themselves. O'Toole depicts a roiling nation that almost ludicrously dreams of a German invasion, if only to get the blood going, and that erupts in faux outrage over regulations on "prawn-flavored crisps." A sympathetic yet unsparing observer, O'Toole asks: How did a great nation bring itself to the point of such willful self-harm? His answer represents one of the most profound portraits of the English since Sarah Lyall's New York Times bestseller The Anglo Files.
Автор: O`toole, Fintan Название: Heroic failure ISBN: 1789540992 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789540994 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 9890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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: The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism ISBN: 1684574951 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684574957 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27580.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: From one of the most perceptive observers of the English today comes a brilliantly insightful, mordantly funny account of their seemingly irrational embrace of nationalism. England's recent lurch to the right appears to be but one example of the nationalist wave sweeping across the world, yet as acclaimed Irish critic Fintan O'Toole suggests in The Politics of Pain, it is, in reality, a phenomenon rooted in World War II. We must look not to the vagaries of the European Union but, instead, far back to the end of the British empire, if we hope to understand our most fraternal ally-and the royal mess in which the British now find themselves. O'Toole depicts a roiling nation that almost ludicrously dreams of a German invasion, if only to get the blood going, and that erupts in faux outrage over regulations on "prawn-flavored crisps." A sympathetic yet unsparing observer, O"Toole asks: How did a great nation bring itself to the point of such willful self-harm? His answer represents one of the most profound portraits of the English since Sarah Lyall's New York Times bestseller The Anglo Files.
Автор: O`toole, Fintan Название: Three years in hell ISBN: 1838935207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838935207 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14770.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A year in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the aftermath of Brexit (or not, as it may prove).
Автор: O`toole, Fintan Название: Three years in hell ISBN: 1838937838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838937836 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 19800.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. 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 Издательство: Faber Рейтинг: Цена: 17600.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. 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 Издательство: Faber Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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.
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