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100	1		_aO'Toole, Fintan, _d1958-
245	1	0	_aWe don't know ourselves : _ba personal history of modern Ireland / _cFintan O'Toole.
246	3	0	_aPersonal history of modern Ireland
246	3	0	_aWe do not know ourselves
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a616 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 572-598) and index.
505	0		_aThe Loneliest Boy in the World -- 1958: On Noah's Ark -- 1959: Modern Family -- 1960: Comanche Country -- 1961: Balubaland -- 1962: Cathode Ní Houlihan -- 1963: The Dreamy Movement of the Stairs -- 1962-1999: Silence and Smoothness -- 1965: Our Boys -- 1966: The GPO Trouser Suit -- 1967: The Burial of Leopold Bloom -- 1968: Requiem -- 1969: Frozen Violence -- 1970: The Killer Chord -- 1971: Little Plum -- 1972: Death of a Nationalist -- 1973: Into Europe -- 1976: The Walking Dead -- 1975-1980: Class Acts -- 1971-1983: Bungalow Bliss -- 1979: Bona Fides -- 1980-1981: No Blue Hills -- 1980-1981: A Beggar on Horseback -- 1979-1982: The Body Politic -- 1981-1983: Foetal Attractions -- 1982: Wonders Taken For Signs -- 1984-1985: Dead Babies and Living Statues -- 1987-1991: As Oil Is to Texas -- 1986-1992: Internal Exiles -- 1989: Freaks -- 1985-1992: Conduct Unbecoming -- 1990-1992: Mature Recollection -- 1992: Not So Bad Myself -- 1992-1994: Meanwhile Back at the Ranch -- 1993: True Confessions -- 1993-1994: Angel Paper -- 1998: The Uses of Uncertainty -- 1990-2015: America at Home -- 1990-2000: Unsuitables from a Distance -- 1999: The Cruelty Man -- 1997-2008: The Makeover -- 2000-2008: Tropical Ireland -- 2009-2013: Jesus Fucking Hell and God -- 2018- : Negative Capability.
520			_a"A celebrated Irish writer's magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world. 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"-- _cProvided by publisher
600	1	0	_aO'Toole, Fintan, _d1958-
651		0	_aIreland _xHistory _y20th century.
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