Drilling deep into the economic collapse and the unprecedented political upheaval that characterised the time after the bank bailout and led to a game-changing general election, Cooper gets to the heart of what really happened. He investigates the background of the key decisions and reveals why they were taken, and by whom, to throw new light on a period that has changed Ireland forever. Finally, Cooper sees signs that all is not lost - though we may have sunk to our lowest ebb as an economic entity, he sees glimmers of promise in a new breed of business leaders and political activists who see this as a time when Ireland can change for the better.
Published first published October 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Mar 01, Seamus Enright rated it really liked it. Very detailed and coherent, fair-minded account of how Ireland got into the horrible mess it's in right now. It's remarkable that he was able to write it by the end of , the final year covered by the book. It's tone of pessimism can also make it a hard read, perhaps, like Fintan O' Toole, he'll follow it up with a more solution-orientate Very detailed and coherent, fair-minded account of how Ireland got into the horrible mess it's in right now.
It's tone of pessimism can also make it a hard read, perhaps, like Fintan O' Toole, he'll follow it up with a more solution-orientated book. Having said that, it has more substance in any chapter than David McWilliams' entire self-regarding oeuvre. May 28, Brian Bailie rated it really liked it. Well researched chronicle of the self-serving bungles and blunders that led up to the crash.
I've read a few books on this subject, and this book puts things into clear perspective. Objective, blunt, and well written.
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Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. I found that it wasn't to biased. Matt Coopers take on the crisis as a narrative of events is useful enough, but as you'd expect from one of Ireland's top journalists it's entirely uncritical in any meaningful fashion. One of the final chapters 'taking the pain' is an unthoughtful account of why the only possible solution to the crisis is cuts in working class pay and services, in effect the redistribution of wealth from working class people to pay off the debts of the financial elite. This conclusion is interesting in that even after tracing in great detail the entire banking and property collapse he still can't see beyond the very narrow political and economic blinders in Irish journalism.
For journalists such as Cooper markets even in failure are not to be questioned but represent the only possible reality.
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He has nothing to say about even minor reforms. He certainly has nothing to say on neo-liberal economics, power or ideology, nor on the fact that private markets may not be the best way to supply essential needs such as housing, education or health. However as a narrative record of what happened and when, it is a useful account.
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