The Irish paradox / How and why we are such a contradictory people. Sean Moncrieff.
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TextPublication details: Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2015.Description: 244 pages ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780717166077 (pbk.)
- 941.46 MON
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'We've been clever and stupid, principled and corrupt. We can be kind and cruel, guilty of dopey optimism and chronic fatalism. We're friendly, but near impossible to get to know. We're proud to be Irish but often crippled with self-loathing. We think we're great, but not really. We find ourselves fascinating. Of course we do. We're a paradox.'
There's something about Irish people, about the way their minds work. But what makes them think the way they do?
In his search for the answer to this question and the key to the Irish psyche, Sean Moncrieff roams from the pub to the online world, the shop to the pulpit. Packed with observations, revelations and intriguing detours into the murkier recesses of Irish history and culture, The Irish Paradox is a roadmap of the contradictory, mutating nature of Irishness.
1. Not One Thing or the Other -- 2. The Myopia of Pints: Are We Extravert? -- 3. The Cóilean Deas Factor: Are We Agreeable? -- 4. The Lives of Others: How Conscientious Are We? -- 5. Postmodern Meta-slagging: Are We Neurotic? -- 6. The Order of Melchizedek: Are We Open? -- 7. Turkey in the Post: Just Outside of Knowable
\'We\'ve been clever and stupid, principled and corrupt. We can be kind and cruel, guilty of dopey optimism and chronic fatalism. We\'re friendly, but near impossible to get to know. We\'re proud to be Irish but often crippled with self-loathing. We think we\'re great, but not really. We find ourselves fascinating. Of course we do. We\'re a paradox.\' There\'s something about Irish people, about the way their minds work. But what makes them think the way they do? In his search for the answer to this question and the key to the Irish psyche, Sean Moncrieff roams from the pub to the online world, the shop to the pulpit. Packed with observations, revelations and intriguing detours into the murkier recesses of Irish history and culture, The Irish Paradox is a roadmap of the contradictory, mutating nature of Irishness.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Not One Thing or the Other (p. 1)
- 2 The Myopia of Pints: Are We Extravert? (p. 37)
- 3 The Cóilean Deas Factor: Are We Agreeable? (p. 73)
- 4 The Lives of Others: How Conscientious Are We? (p. 109)
- 5 Postmodern Meta-slagging: Are We Neurotic? (p. 167)
- 6 The Order of Melchizedek: Are We Open? (p. 199)
- 7 Turkey in the Post: Just Outside of Knowable (p. 237)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Sean Moncrieff is a broadcaster and writer. He is the host of The Moncrieff Show every weekday afternoon on Newstalk 106-8FM. He is the author of three novels, Dublin, The History of Things and The Angel of the Streetlamps, and two non-fiction books, Stark Raving Rulers: Twenty Minor Despots of the Twenty-First Century and God: A User's Guide.