We Don't Know Ourselves

We Don't Know Ourselves

2022 • 788 pages

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The bits that are actually personal are few and far between and O'Toole gets very repetitive by the end.

June 20, 2022
January 1, 2023

Explained a great deal about the last century of Irish history: the ability to hold two beliefs at the same time and never admit the contradiction. Romanticise the matyrs but condemn their methods, pay lip service to the strictures of the church in public but ignore in private.

August 1, 2024