Surviving Ireland
By: Colm Tobin ; illustrations by Ian Benjamin Kenny
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781848272132
Subjects: Social life and customs; History
Description: It's exhausting. Being Irish. The weight of history. The self-doubt. The constant analysis. The wind. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the post colonial hangover following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign oppressors? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world? In Surviving Ireland, the acclaimed comedy writer Colm Tobin offers a satirical romp through modern Irish life --