The Pope's Children: Ireland's New Elite
David McWilliams
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Description for The Pope's Children: Ireland's New Elite
Hardcover. Good copy with some shelf wear, dustwrapper with edge wear and sunning, remains good
David McWilliams' brilliant survey of Ireland today is a celebration of success. He takes us to Deckland, that suburban state of mind where you'll find the Kells Angels, those out-of-town commuters who are the cutting edge of the new prosperity. He introduces the HiCos - Hiberno-Cosmopolitans - the elite whose distance from Deckland is measured in their cool sophistication, their ability to feel at home equally on the Boulevard Saint-Michel and on Hill 16. "The Pope's Children" is an antidote to the endless pessimism of the Commentariat, official Ireland's gloomy opinion mongers, forever seeing a glass half empty that is ... Read more
David McWilliams' brilliant survey of Ireland today is a celebration of success. He takes us to Deckland, that suburban state of mind where you'll find the Kells Angels, those out-of-town commuters who are the cutting edge of the new prosperity. He introduces the HiCos - Hiberno-Cosmopolitans - the elite whose distance from Deckland is measured in their cool sophistication, their ability to feel at home equally on the Boulevard Saint-Michel and on Hill 16. "The Pope's Children" is an antidote to the endless pessimism of the Commentariat, official Ireland's gloomy opinion mongers, forever seeing a glass half empty that is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717139712
SKU
KKD0012220
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About David McWilliams
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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