The Lie of the Land keyword-assembly once again

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Rodney sought to make sense of the reverberations of the October Revolution in a decolonising world marked by Third World revolutionary movements

and the absence of a working model of a fully achieved socialist society

and the struggle for democratization in Chile in the 1980s

and therapy was largely a matter of electric and insulin shocks

The Lie of the Land keyword-assembly once againThe Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Irelands fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between Europe and America, Ireland has redefined itself in the 1990s. Fintan OToole highlights the contradictions and the mythologies at work in Irelands ever changing idea of itself.