We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O'Toole

616 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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A celebrated Irish writer’s magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world. Fintan O’Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish govern...

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Moods

informative 98%
reflective 70%
challenging 37%
emotional 24%
dark 22%
hopeful 17%
sad 17%
funny 15%
inspiring 9%
tense 5%
adventurous 4%
mysterious 1%

Pace

medium 48%
slow 45%
fast 5%

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