From prosperity to austerity (eBook, ePUB)

A socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath
Redaktion: Maher, Eamon; O'Brien, Eugene

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526101471
• Artikelnr.: 48796349

Autorenporträt

Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, where he also lectures in Humanities Eugene O'Brien is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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