Taylor reviewed We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole
Weaving his own experiences into this account of Irish social, cultural, and economic change, O’Toole …
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3 stars
A nice mix of random events in the second half of the 1900s. The author chooses cultural topics he feels were important in defining the country, in an effort to understand the how the current cultural mindset (his thesis) developed. It really is an impressive piece of work and historical writing, but it also lacked Irish humor and really any levity at all. It was quite a bleak and critical look at the country, which is fine, but 600 pages of bleakness wore on me a bit.