An Intelligent Persons Guide to Modern Ireland

by John Waters

Very Good Hardcover Duckworth Publishing. Very Good. Hardcover. 2003.

Genres: History

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

John Waters was born in Castlerea, Co Roscommon, in 1955. He held a range of jobs after leaving school, including railway clerk, showband roadie, pirate radio manager, petrol pump attendant and mailcar driver.


He began part-time work as a a journalist in 1981, with Hot Press, Ireland’s leading rock ‘n’ roll magazine and went full-time in 1984, when he moved to Dublin. As a journalist, magazine editor and columnist, he has specialised in raising unpopular issues of public importance, including the repression of Famine memories and the denial of rights to fathers.

Reviews

[Roger Buck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another of John Water's deeply moving books about modern Ireland. Written over 15 years ago, Waters has yet to mature into the darker vision he has of Ireland today, but a great deal here is very rewarding and shrewd.

I, for one, suspect Waters will one day be remembered as a prophet for what he says of the tragedy of modern, globalised, capitalist Ireland.

Those who feel the same as I do might just possibly be interested in my own archive of blogs on this topic: http://corjesusacratissimum.org/tag/c...

[Williammccolgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first John Waters book I read. A brief but thoughtful recap of what was going on between the 50s and the 90s in Ireland.