{"product_id":"irish-story-1","title":"Irish Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eR.F. Foster's \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how key events in Irish history have been recast and retold to serve a multiplicity of purposes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  In this provocative and extremely funny book Roy Foster demolishes the clichés that surround Ireland's past, examining how key moments have been turned into myths - and, more recently, airbrushed and repackaged for Hollywood and popular culture. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Whether discussing the 'misery tourism' of Famine theme parks, ideas of mystical Celticism, the contested 'Irishness' of Yeats or the sentimentalized childhoods of \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes \u003c\/i\u003eand Gerry Adams's memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Story \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly separates the tall tales from the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Brilliantly scathing ... combative, incisive and immensely enjoyable'\u003cbr\u003e  Fintan O'Toole, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Inspirational ... challenging, illuminating and witty'\u003cbr\u003e  Antonia Fraser, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times \u003c\/i\u003eBooks of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Very funny ... the Irish story has rarely received so lively and unbiased an unfolding'\u003cbr\u003e  Patricia Craig, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'A complex and supremely intelligent revision of Irish identity'\u003cbr\u003e  Colm Tóibín, \u003ci\u003eIndependent \u003c\/i\u003eBooks of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Blazingly good ... lucid and elegant'\u003cbr\u003e  John Lloyd, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eR. F. Foster\u003c\/b\u003e is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His books include \u003ci\u003eModern Ireland: 1600-1972\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLuck and the Irish\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eW. B. Yeats: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54258483528024,"sku":"9780140296853","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780140296853_d4a3f4e5-0e14-4d81-a856-f4a1b5d51d34.jpg?v=1765372538","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/irish-story-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}