A Cold Eye: Notes from a Shared Island, 1989-2024

If the past is another country – what happens when we revisit it, one day a year?

Carlo Gébler has done just that. Here is the story of Ireland – from the tail end of the Troubles to the Good Friday agreement, to the glory days of the Celtic Tiger to the recession to Brexit and on to the present, where, it appears, everything we thought we could take for granted is no longer a given.

Drawing from journals he has kept for over four decades, Gébler stitches together days of his life into someth...