From prosperity to austerity: A socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath

✍ Scribed by Eamon Maher; Eugene O'Brien (editors)

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Examines the Celtic Tiger, the once much-vaunted Irish economic phenomenon, and the subsequent financial disaster, from a socio-cultural perspective

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Crisis, what crisis? The Catholic Church during the Celtic Tiger Years
The Celtic Tiger and the new Irish religious market
Shattered assumptions: a tale of two traumas
‘Tendencywit’: the cultural unconscious of the Celtic Tiger in the writings of Paul Howard
Popular music and the Celtic Tiger
‘What does a woman want?’: Irish contemporary women’s fiction and the expression of desire in an era of plenty
Topographies of terror: photography and the post-Celtic Tiger landscape
Immigration and the Celtic Tiger
‘What rough beast’? Monsters of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Women, fictional messages and a crucial decade
‘A hundred thousand welcomes’: food and wine as cultural signifiers
Contemporary Irish fiction and the indirect gaze
‘Holes in the ground’: theatre as critic and conscience of Celtic Tiger Ireland
‘Ship of fools’: the Celtic Tiger and poetry as social critique
Between modernity and marginality: Celtic Tiger cinema
Conclusion
Index

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