What if a strange spirit swept over Ireland and the entire world, endowing just enough of us with the understanding and inner drive to identify and correct the wrongs with our society and the spirit of man? What if those few won the hearts and minds of the world and transformed the nation for the better, despite the seeming insurmountable corruption and cynicism native to the 21st Century? Ireland 2043 answers this question in an engaging and entertaining format - recounted from the perspective of an as-yet unknown author in the year 2043 after the New Republic had long-since established itself and the dust already settled. In the near future, each chapter published will accompany an audio book format. If you're interested in lending your voice to this project, add a comment to this post or anywhere in the blog and we'll be in touch. -- Deaglán MacCanna INDEX Chapter I - Before Hell Broke Loose
The year is 2043 and the past decades seem like some kind of bizarre fever dream. We understand how social forces coupled with corporate interests warped our perceptions of right and wrong, much like during the World Wars of our great grandfathers - but it still strikes us as cartoonish. We were on a guaranteed course of self-destruction, and what was no less strange was our sudden and radical departure from that trajectory. A disparate collection of our people, crossing regional and partisan lines, suddenly copped on back in late 2019 - the forefathers of our new island nation. They recognised the preciousness of what our ancestors left for us, how timeless it is compared to newer ideas and preoccupations. Armed with the Soviet KGB knowledge that a nation is either programmed or de-programmed in the time it takes for one generation to mature (roughly 25 years), they set about building a future for us. A society's health can be determined by how it treats its most vulnerab...