Vorwort
A radical view of what lies behind the Irish recession.
Autorentext
Gene Kerrigan was born and lives in Dublin, where he has covered politics, crime and scandals for over thirty years. He wrote for Magill magazine and the Sunday Tribune, and currently writes for the Sunday Independent. Among his non-fiction books are the bestselling Hard Cases, Another Country and This Great Little Nation. He's also the author of four novels, the latest of which, The Rage, won the UK's top crime fiction award, the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, at the 2012 Crime Writers' Association awards.
Klappentext
Ireland's economic collapse hit with bewildering speed and cut deep into our lives. At a time when we most needed leadership, our politicians let us down.
They stood by the bankers.
They told us we were to blame for the crash and that we just needed to suffer a little pain to make everything right again. It was a Big Lie.
This book offers an alternative view.
It's about the great majority of us who weren't gambling with our future. It's about what's being done to us, who is doing it and why. It's also about who benefits from the austerity policies, who gets it in the neck, and what we might do about that.
The elites wrap the green flag around themselves, they call for sacrifice and patriotism and they hold on fiercely to every perk and privilege.
To answer the Big Lie, it's time for a little truth.