The Revelation of Ireland (eBook)

Diarmaid Ferriter currently carries the flag for the historian-as-commentator, and does it with considerable élan... Delivered in rapid-fire style ... Ferriter maintains a beady eye on the challenges of writing contemporary history at a time when the sources of knowledge and record are themselves changing exponentially.

Ferriter's impressionistic literary style... is reminiscent of Annie Ernaux, and is highly effective at capturing the mentality and feel of a time. The breadth of his reading is extraordinary

Realistic yet hopeful, Ferriter is a fine chronicler not just of Ireland, but of writing about Ireland too

An excellent account of Ireland's recent history

Forensic and insightful... A major achievement. Ferriter delivers his material with the authority and conviction of a born teacher

A monumental analysis of a most mouvementé period in Irish history... Ferriter is a serious historian and his researches are oceanic

No one could be better-informed, more judiciously-minded or more engaging to read than Ferriter.

A judicious assessment of recent Irish developments

Ferriter is interested above all in the sources, what is preserved and what is forgotten and the oblique shafts of light which they cast on a disputed history

What makes Diarmaid Ferriter such a compelling and readable historian is not just his deep understanding of the past but how that understanding makes sense of the present

Ferriter's work is a judicious mixture of the serious and the hilarious, the comic and the tragic

A punchy, opinionated portrait of Ireland in the last 30 years... There is no better guide than Diarmaid Ferriter

Sets the bar high for good writing and scholarship

Ferriter tells the latest chapter in Ireland's story with authority and insight, deftly weaving together economic and political upheavals with equally tumultuous societal and cultural shifts