We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland Condition:Well Read Author: Leonore Terr

Author: Leonore Terr

and before long

and frustrations of middle school -- all told through one boy's comics

and a powerful object – the Orb – that ended the bloodshed

The story of his life takes us from the French Revolution to 1920s Hollywood

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland Condition:Well Read Author: Leonore TerrFintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government in despair, because all the young people were leaving opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In We Don't Know Ourselves, O'Toole, one of the Anglophone world's most consummate stylists, weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change,