We don’t know ourselves : a personal history of Ireland since 1958
Fintan O'Toole
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 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.