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Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland
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2470918Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Irelandhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/feckers-50-people-who-fecked-up-ireland-9781849019248/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3543293/cfd4cde7-476a-4ed5-9a5f-95ba8938fd3f.jpg?v=638385526715270000191213MXNLittle, Brown Book GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Which 50 People turned Ireland into the fecked-up country she is today? Bono? Haughey? Louis Walsh? de Valera? Its time to name and shame the great, the good and the gobshites...</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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 Irelands 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.</p><p>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...</p>...2406890Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland191213https://www.gandhi.com.mx/feckers-50-people-who-fecked-up-ireland-9781849019248/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3543293/cfd4cde7-476a-4ed5-9a5f-95ba8938fd3f.jpg?v=638385526715270000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119781849019248_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_<p><strong>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...</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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...</p>(*_*)9781849019248_<p><strong>Which 50 People turned Ireland into the fecked-up country she is today? Bono? Haughey? Louis Walsh? de Valera? Its time to name and shame the great, the good and the gobshites...</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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 Irelands 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.</p><p>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...</p>...9781849019248_Little, Brown Book Grouplibro_electonico_ce8ac8f1-5917-399d-9377-84b8f23cf88b_9781849019248;9781849019248_9781849019248John WatersInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/hachetteuk-epub-05e01859-d51c-40ad-a010-0a3fd3c20b39.epub2011-10-06T00:00:00+00:00Little, Brown Book Group