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Book review: Ireland’s many changes to the modern age
What makes Diarmaid Ferriter such a compelling and readable historian is not just his deep understanding of the past but how that understanding makes sense of the present.
His latest book spans just 25 years, a time that might make one wonder what could possibly have happened over such a short period to warrant forensic investigation.
A lot, actually.
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It is no exaggeration to say that Ireland was transformed over that period, not just economically but socially and politically as well.
The scale of clerical abuse led to such widespread revulsion that it changed our relationship with the Catholic Church forever.
The period under review also saw the emergence of the Celtic Tiger which brought economic transformation of a kind considered unthinkable even a decade before.
It also deals with the global economic crash of 2008 which shook the foundations of Ireland.
Ferriter notes economist Morgan Kelly’s reflection on the met