A History of Ireland in Song

Nice People and Rednecks

%T Nice People and Rednecks
%S Ireland in the 1980s
%A Desmond Fennell
%I Gill & Macmillan
%C Dublin
%D 1986
%O paperback
%G ISBN 0717114511
%P 158pp

Desmond Fennell has long been one of the most perceptive commentators on contemporary Ireland. This book is a collection of pieces written for the, now sadly defunct, daily newspaper, The Irish Press, in the early to mid-80s. Fennell is particularly acute in exposing the hypocrisy and doublethink rife in the South in those days (and, God knows, with us still) though he never lapses into unconditional Provo-worship. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong, always thought-provoking.

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