Ireland: the autobiography : eyewitness accounts of Irish life since 1916

Ireland: The Autobiography offers a fresh, vivid take on the last century of Irish life through a brilliant collection of eyewitness accounts and recollections.

Broadcaster and historian John Bowman has spent years mining archives, diaries and unpublished memoirs to create a remarkably varied and intense mosaic of voices and perspectives.

Collectively, they give us a portrait of Ireland unlike anything we've read before.John Bowman is a broadcaster and historian.

Since the 1960s he has presented programmes on current affairs and history on RTE television and radio.

He is the author of De Valera and the Ulster Question, which was awarded the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, and of Window and Mirror: RTE Television 1961-2011.

He lives in Dublin.