The Pope's Children - Couverture souple

McWilliams, David

 
9780717141722: The Pope's Children
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0717141721 ISBN 13 : 9780717141722
Editeur : Gill Books, 2006

Synopsis

Meet The Pope’s Children, the beneficiaries of Wonderbra Economics. This is the special generation, the Irish baby boom of the 1970s that peaked nine months to the day after the Pope’s visit. There are 620,000 of them, squeezed into the middle and lifted up by the Expectocracy. Ireland is blurring. Out of this haze has come the Full-on Nation, the most hedonisitic generation ever.

David McWilliams’ brilliant research and analysis of Ireland is a celebration of success. In an easy-to-read style, he takes us to Deckland, that suburban state of mind where you will find the Kells Angels, Breakfast Roll Man, Low GI Jane and RoboPaddy. Come face to face with the You’re a Star generation, Billy Bunker, fair-trade Frank, Carrot Juice Contrarians and Bouncy Castle Brendan. We also meet the HiCos, Hibernian Cosmopolitans, the new elite whose distance from Deckland is measured by appreciations and cultivations that Deckland’s rampant credit just can’t buy.
Entertaining and informative, The Pope’s Children told of the vast surge of ambition, money, optimisim and hope in Ireland during the boom.

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À propos de l?auteur

David McWilliams - economist, lecturer and broadcaster extraordinaire - he is the presenter of 'The Big Bite' on RTE television. He also writes a weekly opinion column in The Sunday Business Post.

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Éditeur
Gill Books
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0717141721
ISBN 13 
9780717141722
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
300
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Personne responsable
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