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The centenary of Irish independence has inspired a flood of writing. Among the many traditional histories and current political commentaries, this book stands out. It charts the extraordinary economic ...

We get no such thing here; We Don’t Know Ourselves is a remarkably original, fluent and absorbing book, with the pace and twists of an enthralling novel and the edge of a fine sword, underpinned ...

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[MUSIC PLAYING] Fintan O’Toole joins us now. He’s the author of many books, the most recent of which is “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland.” In The New York ...

But the novel has no monopoly on historical correction, and reading Fintan O’Toole’s new book, “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland” (Liveright), is like ...