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A New Ireland: How Europe's Most Conservative Country Became Its Most Liberal

A New Ireland: How Europe's Most Conservative Country Became Its Most Liberal

O'Dowd, Niall

Hardcover

Religion General General Political ScienceIrish History

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ISBN10: 1510749292
ISBN13: 9781510749290
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub
Published: Mar 10 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
It's not your father's Ireland. Not anymore. A story of modern revolution in Ireland told by the founder of IrishCentral, Irish America magazine, and the Irish Voice newspaper.

In a May 2019 countrywide referendum, Ireland voted overwhelmingly to make abortion legal; three years earlier, it had done the same with same-sex marriage, becoming the only country in the world to pass such a law by universal suffrage. Pope Francis's visit to the country saw protests and a fraction of the emphatic welcome that Pope John Paul's had seen forty years earlier. There have been two female heads of state since 1990, the first two in Ireland's history. Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, an openly gay man of Indian heritage, declared that a quiet revolution had taken place.

It had. For nearly all of its modern history, Ireland was Europe's most conservative country. The Catholic Church was its most powerful institution and held power over all facets of Irish life.

But as scandal eroded the Church's hold on Irish life, a new Ireland has flourished. War in the North has ended. EU membership and an influx of American multinational corporations have helped Ireland weather economic depression and transform into Europe's headquarters for Apple, Facebook, and Google.

With help from prominent Irish and Irish American voices like historian and bestselling author Tim Pat Coogan and the New York Times's Maureen Dowd, A New Ireland tells the story of a modern revolution against all odds.

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