Defence Forces carry flag of the Republic of Ireland as they take part in the St. Patrick’s Day parade on March 17, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. | Charles McQuillan/Getty Images One of my vacation habits is to take along a book about the place I’m visiting — which is how I found myself on Ireland’s spectacular Atlantic coast last month, paging through a copy of Fintan O’Toole’s We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland. O’Toole, a prominent Irish journalist, uses the years of his own life, beginning in 1958, to tell the story of the changes that have taken place in thi...

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