Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland
John Waters
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Description for Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Ireland
Paperback. An hilarous and savage attack on the fifty people who fecked up the Emerald Isle. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 246. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Which 50 People turned Ireland into the fecked-up country she is today? Bono? Haughey? Louis Walsh? de Valera? It's time to name and shame the great, the good and the gobshites...
Conventional wisdom has it that Ireland, after a violent and tragic history, had began to get things right. But when the ill wind of recession cruelly snatched that self-satisfied achievement away, it all seemed like exceedingly back luck.
In his 50 brilliantly acerbic portraits Waters reveals a consistent pattern of self-delusion, myopia, inferiority complex, bravado, defeatism, cynicism, sentimentalism and conceit. He traces Ireland's story from the paranoid ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849016872
SKU
KMK0005892
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Waters
John Waters was born in Castlerea, Co Roscommon, in 1955. He held a range of jobs after leaving school, including railway clerk, showband roadie, pirate radio manager, petrol pump attendant and mailcar driver.
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