Volume 44, Number 12 · July 17, 1997
Ceremony of Innocence
By Neal Ascherson
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
by Frank McCourt
Scribner, 364 pp., $25.00
Goodbye to Catholic Ireland
by Mary Kenny
Sinclair-Stevenson, 446 pp., £11.99
Ireland, in the last few years, has had more posts driven into her small patch of earth than any other country in the world. It was post-British and post-colonial for some decades. But now, in quick succession, it has become post-unionist, post-tribalist, post-nationalist (this post hammered in with particular vigor by Professor Richard Kearney in his recent book of that title[*] ), and finally post-Catholic. About the only empty space left in this fence is that reserved for 'post-Partition' Ireland.
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