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David McWilliams' The Pope's Children: David McWilliams Ireland 1
David McWilliams' The Pope's Children: David McWilliams Ireland 1
David McWilliams' The Pope's Children: David McWilliams Ireland 1
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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.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGill Books
Release dateNov 15, 2005
ISBN9780717155613
David McWilliams' The Pope's Children: David McWilliams Ireland 1
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David McWilliams

David McWilliams is the author of the bestselling The Pope's Children: Ireland's New Elite and lives in Dublin with his wife and two children. www.davidmcwilliams.ie

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    There are interesting snippets and quips in this one but I think he simplifies things way too much. Yes he has some points in that Irish people are spending too much and not thinking about the future but he seems to want to pretend that he's above all this and he isn't, he's part of it. Indeed protectionism failed Ireland and the rampant emigration that plagued this country until the 90's still has scars but things can't be as simple or as meaningless as he makes it out to be. At one stage he's complaining about stereotypes and at another he's enforcing them. Yes Dublin is a traffic disaster but only forward thinking, reliable public transport can save that mess. Yes people own too much and have re-mortgaged their re-mortgage but that's because of the way the taxes are set up and the fact that this country encourages dishonesty.Interesting but needs a decent dose of salt with it. It earned a few extra points for making me chuckle. It also apparently echoes an American economist.

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