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

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

Vast, sweeping, comprehensive (if sometimes unwieldy) perspective on Irish history. Really fascinating in context of modern apartheid states and two-state scenarios, but also interesting of it's own merit to see the evolution of the Irish people and Ireland from migratory to settled in their own land following centuries of colonial rule; how does a people form an identity from there? My one complaint is that it could have been edited more tightly, but this is a good one for history buffs.