We Don't Know Ourselves av Fintan O'Toole

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The #1 <i>Irish Times</i> bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards ''A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece'' <b>Marian Keyes</b> ''Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent'' <b>Colm T¿ib¿ <i>Guardian</i></b> ''With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel'' <b><i>Irish Times</i></b> ''Evocative, moving, funny and furious'' <b>Dominic Sandbrook, <i>Sunday Times</i></b> ''An enthralling, panoramic book'' <b>Patrick Radden Keefe</b> ''A book that will remain important for a very long time'' <b>An Post Irish Book Award</b><i>We Don''t Know Ourselves</i> is a very personal vision of recent Irish history from the year of O''Toole''s birth, 1958, down to the present. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during those decades, and Fintan O''Toole''s life coincides with that arc of transformation. The book is a brilliant interweaving of memories (though this is emphatically not a memoir) and engrossing social and historical narrative. This was the era of Eamon