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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland Condition:Well Read By depicting democracy and developmentFintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government in despair, because all the young people were leaving opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In We Don't Know Ourselves, O'Toole, one of the Anglophone world's most consummate stylists, weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change,