Ireland's Changes - Arguing At The Crossroads

164 pages Softcover collection of Essays on Where We Are At back in 1996.Old certainties about what it means to be Irish are vanishing while dozens of voices clamour to explain what's going on. Now Arguing at the Crossroads, a new collection of essays, defines a moment in a changing country, presenting a kaleidescope of views.
Leading contemporary Irish writers and thinkers such as poet Eavan Boland, journalist Fintan O'Toole, novelists John Banville and Julia O'Faolain, and politician John Hume present their interpretations of the Ireland they live in. First released to mark France's L'Imaginaire Irlandaise celebration of culture in 1996, the book is now published in English for the first time, with an introduction by L'Imaginaire organiser, Doireann Ní Bhriain.