Reinventing Ireland

Culture, Society and the Global Economy

By: Luke Gibbons (Editor), Peadar Kirby (Editor), Michael Cronin (Editor)

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Over the 1990s the Irish economy experienced a period of unprecedented growth which has earned it the title "Celtic Tiger". This success has been interpreted by academic commentators as marking a social and cultural transformation, what some have called the reinvention of Ireland. The essays in this volume challenge the largely positive interpretation of Ireland's changing social order. It identifies the ways in which culture and society have been made subservient to the needs of the market in this neo-liberal Ireland. It draws on subversive strands in Irish history and offers a broader and more robust understanding of culture as a site of resistance to the dominant social order and as a political means to fashion an alternative future.

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Introduction: The Reinvention of Ireland: A Critical Perspective	p. 1
Economy and Society
Contested Pedigrees of the Celtic Tiger	p. 21
Culture and State in Ireland's New Economy	p. 38
Speed Limits: Ireland, Globalisation and the War against Time	p. 54
Public Spaces
Citizenship and Education: A Crisis of the Republic?	p. 69
The Global Cure? History, Therapy and the Celtic Tiger	p. 89
Historical Legacies
Colonialism and the Celtic Tiger: Legacies of History and the Quest for Vision	p. 109
Religion and the Celtic Tiger: The Cultural Legacies of Anti-Catholicism in Ireland	p. 124
Media
The Celtic Tiger's Media Pundits	p. 143
Broadcasting and the Celtic Tiger: From Promise to Practice	p. 160
Screening the Green: Cinema under the Celtic Tiger	p. 177
Conclusions and Transformations	p. 196
Bibliography	p. 209
Contributors	p. 222
Index	p. 224
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