We think that you might have come across Fintan O'Toole before, he is an Irish journalist, but he has written for the Guardian as well as other foreign papers. He also has written a lot of history and political books. This one is a bit different, it's sort of a history of modern Ireland through his lifetime - a bit like a memoir but more about Ireland than O'Toole. Being on the Irish sea you can forget the transformation Ireland has gone through since O'Toole was born in 1958. Everywhere has, but attitudes seemed to have changed more significantly over there than here, and it's interesting to get it first hand from someone who has lived it. We would recommend reading an O'Toole book anyway, his stuff is always very thoughtful, but this one is particularly interesting.
