Pat Rabbitte is looking to the past to understand the present, and what that present means for the future. By his own admission, Rabbitte is a product of his time, born into a tumultuous period of profound change, when the forces of modernisation and social liberalisation clashed against the prevailing winds of conservatism and traditionalism. Rabbitte was shaped by the civil rights movement in the US, by the eruption of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and, by what he describes as the “failed state we were in until the late sixties” when Lemass and Whitaker ushered in a new economic…

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