Michael Moynihan: Ain't that a shame — etiquette has been thrown under the bus

We’re all post-shame now — post-shame, post-guilt, post-recrimination — so even if you think you can shame someone, you can’t.

Shame is a strange notion in twenty-first-century Ireland. It would be difficult to measure its decline.

Last year I wrote here about etiquette. Manners. The way to treat people, and the very specific challenge of behaving appropriately in certain social settings in Cork.

This was partly motivated by a clever piece in New York magazine which outlined exhaustive strictures on how to behave in New York society. Or societies.