The Lie of the Land keyword-assembly Rodney sought to make sense

Rodney sought to make sense of the reverberations of the October Revolution in a decolonising world marked by Third World revolutionary movements

suggesting that the current financial turbulence and debt crisis are evidence that we live in the age of post-credit capitalism

and the absence of a working model of a fully achieved socialist society

Captain Swing reveals the background to that upheaval

The Lie of the Land keyword-assembly Rodney sought to make senseThe Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Irelands fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between Europe and America, Ireland has redefined itself in the 1990s. Fintan OToole highlights the contradictions and the mythologies at work in Irelands ever changing idea of itself.