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  • Published: 15 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9781844882830
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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Ireland: The Autobiography

One Hundred Years of Irish Life, Told by Its People




Vivid, gripping firsthand accounts of the key moments in Irish life since 1916

Ireland: The Autobiography offers a fresh, vivid take on the last century of Irish life through a brilliant collection of eyewitness accounts and recollections. Broadcaster and historian John Bowman has spent years mining archives, diaries and memoirs to create a remarkably varied and intense mosaic of voices and perspectives. Collectively, they give us an image of Ireland unlike anything we've read before.

  • Published: 15 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9781844882830
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
Categories:

Praise for Ireland: The Autobiography

Absorbing and illuminating ... John Bowman has selected a range of accounts of Irish life that do justice to what happened, what it felt like, and the personal and societal experiences alongside the "official" version.

Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times

Entertaining and informative

Sunday Business Post

A thoughtful and eclectic collection

Irish Mail on Sunday

A remarkably varied and delightfully readable mosaic of voices and perspectives

Woman's Way

A treasure

Irish Examiner

A whistle-stop tour of the seismic, seminal and explosive events that shaped the nation

Irish Independent