Black Hole, Green Card

This portrait of 1990s, is told with insight and vigor. O'Toole argues that there is no longer an Irish economy, just a Black Hole through which profits and jobs vanish. There is no Irish nation, just a scattered people who still hold a country in their heads. He explores the crisis of politics in a country whose rulers find it incomprehensible, and cites the elements of a new Irish identity being forged in the 1990s.