The Irish Story
About this book
Here, Roy Foster demolishes the cliches that surround Ireland's past, examining how key moments from its history have been turned into myths - and, more recently, airbrushed and repackaged for Hollywood and popular culture. Whether discussing the "misery tourism" of Famine theme parks, ideas of mystical Celticism, the contested "Irishness" of Yeats or the sentimentalized childhoods of "Angela's Ashes" and Gerry Adams' memoir, Foster aims to separate the tales from the truth.
Publishers
- Original publisher English: Penguin
- English (US): Oxford University Press
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