The Pope's Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland's New Elite

✍ Scribed by David McWilliams

Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 350
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Named for the ironic coincidence of the Irish baby boom of the 1970s, which peaked nine months to the day after Pope John Paul II s historic visit to Dublin, The Pope s Children is both a celebration and bitingly funny portrait of the first generation of the Celtic Tiger the beneficiaries of the economic miracle that propelled Ireland from centuries of deprivation into a nation that now enjoys one of the highest living standards in the world.

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