Eye on Ireland

''Jolts like jump-leads to the complacent heart ... an eye-opener. MIRIAM LORD

FOR FOUR DECADES, JUSTINE MCCARTHY''S FEARLESS JOURNALISM AND COMMENTARY HAS HELD POWER TO ACCOUNT AS SHE, IN HER OWN WORDS, ''GREW UP ALONGSIDE MY COUNTRY''.

The book opens with a long personal essay in which Justine recounts her early years as a fearful child who dreamed of being a writer, to cutting her teeth in the ma...