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We’ve been clever and stupid, principled and corrupt. We can be kind and cruel, guilty of dopey optimism and chronic fatalism. We’re friendly, but near impossible to get to know. We’re proud to be Irish but often crippled with self-loathing. We think we’re great, but not really. We find ourselves fascinating. Of course we do. We’re a paradox.
There’s something about Irish people, about the way their minds work. But what makes them think the way they do?
In his search for the answer to this question and the key to the Irish psyche, Sean Moncrieff roams from the pub to the online world, the shop to the pulpit. Packed with observations, revelations and intriguing detours into the murkier recesses of Irish history and culture, The Irish Paradox is a roadmap of the contradictory, mutating nature of Irishness.
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"Offers some of the most lucid insights into the modern Irish character that you are likely to encounter. Moncrieff writes about these and other Irish hang-ups so well because his book is a testament to not just what he endured as a public figure, but what he discovered in himself." -- Irish Voice "Irish Voice"
About the Author:
Sean Moncrieff is a broadcaster and writer. He is the host of The Moncrieff Show every weekday afternoon on Newstalk 106 8FM. He is the author of three novels, Dublin, The History of Things and The Angel of the Streetlamps, and two non-fiction books, Stark Raving Rulers: Twenty Minor Despots of the Twenty-First Century and God: A User’s Guide.
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- PublisherGill & Macmillan
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0717166074
- ISBN 13 9780717166077
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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