<em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> BESTSELLER<br /><em>NEW YORK TIMES</em> - 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR<br /> NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br /><em>The Atlantic</em>: 10 Best Books of 2022<br /> Best Books of the Year: <em>Washington Post, New Yorker</em>, <em>Salon, Foreign Affairs, New Statesman</em>, Chicago Public Library, Vroman's<br /> "[L]ike reading a great tragicomic Irish novel." --James Wood, <em>The New Yorker</em><br /> "Masterful . . . astonishing." --Cullen Murphy, <em>The Atlantic</em><br /> "A landmark history . . . Leavened by the brilliance of O'Toole's insights and wit." --Claire Messud, <em>Harper's</em><br /><br /> Winner - 2021 An Post Irish Book Award -- Nonfiction Book of the Year - from the judges: "The most remarkable Irish nonfiction book I've read in the last 10 years"; "[A] book for the ages."<br /><br /> A celebrated Irish writer's magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world.
