The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities
The Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Ireland’s fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between Europe and America, Ireland has redefined itself in the 1990s. Fintan O’Toole highlights the contradictions and the mythologies at work in Ireland’s ever-changing idea of itself.
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The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities
The Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Ireland’s fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between Europe and America, Ireland has redefined itself in the 1990s. Fintan O’Toole highlights the contradictions and the mythologies at work in Ireland’s ever-changing idea of itself.
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The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities

The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities

by Fintan O'Toole
The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities

The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities

by Fintan O'Toole

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The Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Ireland’s fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between Europe and America, Ireland has redefined itself in the 1990s. Fintan O’Toole highlights the contradictions and the mythologies at work in Ireland’s ever-changing idea of itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781859841327
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 12/17/1998
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.75(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Lie of the Land
Going Native
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
The Ghost and the Machine
Mixed Blessings
Annie and the Bishop, Ireland and America
Dev's People
Scenes from the Death of the National Movement
Scenes from the Birth of a New Morality
The Man of Your Dreams
The Irish for Ho Ho Ho
Gay Byrne
Permission to Speak
No Place Like Home
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