Feckers. 50 People Who Fecked Up IrelandJohn Waters2010

Conventional wisdom has it that Ireland, after a violent and tragic history, had begun to get things right. But when the ill wind of recession cruelly snatched that self-satisfied achievement away, it all seemed like exceedingly bad luck.
In 50 brilliantly acerbic portraits, Waters reveals a consistent patterns of self-delusion, myopia, inferiority complex, bravado, defeatism, cynicism, sentimentalism and conceit. He traces Ireland's story from the paranoid insularism and cultural short-sightedness that followed national independence, through the post-sixties obsession with a faux self-confidence, to the final, salutary meltdown of the Celtic Tiger - strangely lacking either Celts or tigers...

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