Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland : 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland Paperback
by John Waters
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Which 50 People turned Ireland into the fecked-up country she is today?
Bono? Haughey? Louis Walsh? de Valera? It's time to name and shame the great, the good and the gobshites...Conventional wisdom has it that Ireland, after a violent and tragic history, had began to get things right.
But when the ill wind of recession cruelly snatched that self-satisfied achievement away, it all seemed like exceedingly back luck.
In his 50 brilliantly acerbic portraits Waters reveals a consistent pattern of self-delusion, myopia, inferiority complex, bravado, defeatism, cynicism, sentimentalism and conceit.
He traces Ireland's story from the paranoid insularism and cultural myopia that followed national Independence, though the post-Sixties obsession with a faux 'self-confidence', to the final, salutary meltdown of the Celtic Tiger, and strangely lacking either Celts or tigers.
Once among the oldest civilization in Europe, Ireland has ended up as a second-rate version of the England it tried to discard.
It threw out not merely the bathwater and the baby, but also the bathtub, the sponge and the rubber duck...
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- Pages:288 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:20/10/2009
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- ISBN:9781849014427
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:288 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:20/10/2009
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- ISBN:9781849014427