“My parents’ wedding photographs always remind me of a frontier town in an old Western.” Fintan O’Toole, longtime journalist and writer, uses his lifetime as the scope for this recent history of Irish history. It’s partially a memoir too, but only in the sense of using his specific impressions and experience to serve the larger question of what was it like to live through the changes the country went through in the 65 years or so of the book. The style here is mostly serious, […]