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Book SynopsisExamines the Celtic Tiger, the once much-vaunted Irish economic phenomenon, and the subsequent financial disaster, from a socio-cultural perspective
Trade ReviewThe Irish economic crisis was as much sociopolitical as it was economic. So it is surprising that we have had so little analysis from outside economics. This book on the role of culture, particularly the way it has reflected the fall, is therefore extremely welcome... This book is invaluable... the first serious attempt to cast a sociocultural net over what has happened'
The book is full of wonderful insights. . . This book is invaluable, if only for the fact that it is the first serious attempt to cast a sociocultural net across what has happened. It is not always easy or comfortable reading, but it is rewarding. As we move towards the upswing, with the inevitable consequence that that also shall end, we need to reflect on what happened and on how we responded to it. This book helps us to do that.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction – Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien
1. Crisis, what crisis? The Catholic Church during the Celtic Tiger – Eamon Maher
2. The Celtic Tiger and the new Irish religious market – Catherine Maignant
3. Shattered assumptions: a tale of two traumas – Brendan O’Brien
4.‘Tendency–Wit’: the cultural unconscious of the Celtic Tiger in the writings of Paul Howard – Eugene O’Brien
5. Popular music and the Celtic Tiger – Gerry Smyth
6. ‘What does a woman want?’: Irish contemporary women’s fiction and the expression of desire in an era of plenty – Sylvie Mikowski
7. Topographies of terror: photography and the post-Celtic Tiger landscape – Justin Carville
8. Immigration and Celtic Tiger – Bryan Fanning
9. ‘What Rough Beast’? Monsters of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland – Kieran Keohane and Carmen Kuhling
10. Women, fictional messages and a crucial decade – Mary Pierse
11. ‘A hundred thousand welcomes’: food and wine as cultural signifiers – Brian Murphy
12. Contemporary Irish fiction and the Indirect Gaze – Neil Murphy
13 ‘Holes in the Ground’: theatre as critic and conscience of Celtic Tiger Ireland – Vic Merriman
14. ‘Ship of Fools’: The Celtic Tiger and poetry as social critique – Eóin Flannery
15. Between modernity and marginality: Celtic Tiger cinema – Ruth Barton
Conclusion
Index
