Saturday Extra - Separate Stories Podcast

In the 1950s, Ireland was such an irrelevant backwater that the Irish left in droves. A plan for economic modernisation finally started to turn the country’s fortunes around, but the Catholic church’s puritanical grip on Ireland’s social and cultural life wasn’t going to let go that easily. Author Fintan O’Toole talks about his new book ‘We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958’.