Scandal Nation: Key Events that Shook and Shaped Ireland
- ISBN-10
- 1444725742
- ISBN-13
- 9781444725742
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-07-16
- Publisher
- Hachette Ireland
- Authors
- Shane Coleman, Mick Clifford
Description
We are where we are has become one of the great truisms of the current crisis facing the country. But how did we get here and can an inspection of the roots of our modern failings - of government, state agencies and church - help us to pave a way forward? Scandal Nation argues the case as it analyses twelve key events since the foundation of the Irish state that shaped us as a nation. It examines the culture within which these events occurred, how they unfolded and their impact on what followed.
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- 2018-05-31
- 256 pages
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