A Cold Eye: Notes from a Shared Island, 1989–2024 - Softcover

Gébler, Carlo

 
9781848409002: A Cold Eye: Notes from a Shared Island, 1989–2024
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1848409001 ISBN 13: 9781848409002
Verlag: New Island Books, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

If the past is another country – what happens when we revisit it, one day a year?

Carlo Gébler has done just that. Here is the story of Ireland – from the tail end of the Troubles to the Good Friday agreement, to the glory days of the Celtic Tiger to the recession to Brexit and on to the present, where, it appears, everything we thought we could take for granted is no longer a given.

Drawing from journals he has kept for over four decades, Gébler stitches together days of his life into something bigger than his own lived experiences – a vivid patchwork history of the island over thirty-five years, capturing those sweeping changes in sharp, funny, slantwise pieces that will prompt readers to reflect on the strange process of how we got here.

This intelligent and affectionate compilation, written in Gébler’s sparkling prose, is a joy. Whether read from beginning to end or dipped into, it will appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in the astonishing evolution of our island.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

CARLO GÉBLER is a novelist, biographer, playwright, memoirist, critic and occasional broadcaster. He has worked as a prison and university teacher for many years and also worked with Patrick Maguire, who was wrongly convicted of the IRA Guildford pub bombings, on his memoir My Father’s Watch. He is a member of Aosdána and lives in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

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Verlag
New Island Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1848409001
ISBN 13 
9781848409002
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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