Book description
Ireland's economic collapse hit with bewildering speed and cut deep
into many lives. At a time when we most needed leadership, our
politicians let us down, telling us we were all to blame for the
recession 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 to the official cover story of
austerity. 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 this and who gets it in the
neck. And what we might do about that.
Gene Kerrigan delves deep into the muddy waters of the boom and
crash, the chaos in the banks, the intervention by the troika and the
erosion of democracy. He looks at how the Dáil and the media became
full of mindless free market cheerleaders, how the country became
laden down with unregulated bankers, and how the government acquiesced
in imposing a destructive programme of austerity on the Irish people.
Meanwhile, the elites in our society wrap the green flag around
themselves, calling for sacrifice and patriotism, while they hold on
fiercely to every perk and privilege.
It's time to tell the truth.
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.
