Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland【電子書籍】[ John Waters ]

＜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-rat．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る