Surviving Ireland Audiobook (Free)

It’s exhausting, getting Irish. The continuous self-flagellation is enough to place anybody off their breakfast time.

Why are we so difficult on ourselves? Could it be the post-colonial overhang pursuing hundreds of years of oppression at the hands of a litany of international invaders? Or could it be collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world?

In Surviving Ireland, acclaimed comedy writer Colm Tobin* needs the reader from the hand for any satirical romp through modern Irish life. As well as providing all the tools about Making it through Ireland you will have to navigate this often tricky little island (except a compass or anything even resembling a fact), the book will take you through a number of the country’s fraught history, requesting some searing questions in the process: how did we get here, where are we going and who in the name of God is going to pay for it all?

Surviving Ireland takes in culture and politics, town and country, drink and food, delivery, death and everything in between. Let it end up being your definitive guidebook to this strange and bewildering rock and roll, cowering in the frosty Atlantic swells. Oh, and it’s got some funny drawings in it as well.

* Not really the Booker Prize-nominated author Colm Tóibín.