Ireland Handbook
Ireland is often portrayed as a charming laboratory time capsule of pre-industrial Europe, and its people as either a beguiling race of quaint and gullible country folk, fondly imbued with an affectionate lack of logic, or as irrational individuals with a disingenuous blarney. The truth is more complicated but Ireland has leapfrogged over the industrial age into a high-tech, postmodern economy, and the country is far from being a social or cultural backwater. Indeed, the very vibrancy of the people and their society is what attracts so many visitors...
Ireland is often portrayed as a charming laboratory time capsule of pre-industrial Europe, and its people as either a beguiling race of quaint and gullible country folk, fondly imbued with an affectionate lack of logic, or as irrational individuals with a disingenuous blarney. The truth is more complicated but Ireland has leapfrogged over the industrial age into a high-tech, postmodern economy, and the country is far from being a social or cultural backwater. Indeed, the very vibrancy of the people and their society is what attracts so many visitors...
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ISBN | 1 |
Leto izdaje | 2002 |
Število strani | 704 |
Dimenzije | 12,5 x 21,0 |
Izdal | Footprint |
Avtor | Patricia Levy, Seán Sheehan |
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