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

4.0

O'Toole states at the end that he did not feel his life was interesting enough for a memoir and so chose to write a history of Ireland starting from the year he was born to the present. He intersperses his own perspectives of what was happening as he was experiencing the history along with the facts. O'Toole being a journalist in Ireland once he reached adulthood does have some first hand knowledge of major events. I felt this book was very well written and researched and is structured in such a way that allows a non-Irish person to eventually understand the Irish perspective and culture in a way that I never had experienced before. Very well done.