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Title: Being Irish: Personal Reflections on Irish Identity Today by Paddy Logue ISBN: 1-86076-187-9 Publisher: Oak Tree Press (Ireland) Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Not bad but not what i expected
Comment: As a person of Irish descent i found this an intriguing idea:a series of short essays by a variety of Irish and American men and women on what it means to be "irish." Certainly the Irish are one of the most conflicted ethnic groups around: some are loyal to england, some are fiercly militant, some are poetic, some are living in america and dreaming of ireland and some are living in ireland and dreaming of america. At any rate, i was disapointed. Most of the essays are a bit self serving and reflect the writer's viewpoint in an expected and unsurprising way. For instance, politicians write about irish politics, irish writers write about irish writing, irish activists defend their opinions, etc. i had hoped for more emotional and cultural analysis: what makes an irish person irish? what makes them different? when you look past the politician/athlete/etc, what's there? can you be irish if you don't live in ireland anymore? few of the essays scratch those questions. too many of them read like PR (especially Tony Blair's, which speaks nostagically of his childhood visits to Ireland - too bad he's neatly avoided actually working on the Norther Ireland question while bombing Iraq instead). Skip the book, have a couple of Powers or some Guiness and put on a ceilidh album and jig around the house instead

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