A State of Emergency

This book has changed the way I look back at the past two years of my life. It has contextualised the pandemic as both a local and global piece of history that I lived through. As a massive fan of reading history and having dived into the lives of many different eras, conflicts and global emergencie......more

Would not be my usual type of book but this is a very interesting , well written book . He could write a sequel too …. Pandemic far from over as we speak......more

People have been describing this as the definitive text on Ireland’s Covid crisis and I have to agree. I was surprised by how well written this was, and also how healing it was to read. It had everything from heartbreaking stories of families who suffered devastation at the hands of the virus, to tal......more

Just grand. Chambers illuminates when it comes to behind the scenes tension between the various parties charged with handling Ireland's shambolic response to the virus. He hints at - and I wished he'd teased out more - tensions between the political figures involved. Donnelly comes across as badly i......more

I wasn’t going to include this in my Goodreads as I didn’t read it but rather listened to it. However after 10 hours of listening and bringing me to tears on occasion how can I not count it. Taking you behind the scenes of our lived history there was politics, and personal stories, new facts and hea......more