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Title From prosperity to austerity : a socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath / Eamon Maher and Eugene O'Brien
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Manchester Political Studies
Contents Cover; From prosperity to austerity; Contents; List of figures ; Notes on contributors ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Eamon Maher and Eugene O'Brien; 1 Crisis, what crisis? The Catholic Church during the Celtic Tiger Years: Eamon Maher; 2 The Celtic Tiger and the new Irish religious market: Catherine Maignant; 3 Shattered assumptions: a tale of two traumas: Brendan Geary; 4 'Tendency­wit': 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 Miko7 Topographies of terror: photography and the post-­Celtic Tiger landscape: Justin Carville; 8 Immigration and the 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 Merriman14 'Ship of fools': the Celtic Tiger and poetry as social critique: Eóin Flannery; 15 Between modernity and marginality: Celtic Tiger cinema: Ruth Barton; Conclusion: Eamon Maher and Eugene O'Brien; Index
Summary This text examines the phenomenon of the rise and fall of the Irish Celtic Tiger from a cultural perspective. It looks at Ireland's regression from prosperity to austerity in terms of a society as opposed to just an economy. Using literary and cultural theory, it looks at how this period was influenced by, and in its turn influenced, areas such as religion, popular culture, politics, literature, photography, gastronomy, music, theatre, poetry and film. It seeks to provide some answers as to what exactly happened to Irish society in the past few decades of boom and bust
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 19, 2014)
Subject Political science and theory.
Society and social sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Economy.
Economic history
Economic policy
Volkswirtschaft
Economics, Finance, Business & Management -- Economics -- Political economy.
SUBJECT Ireland -- Economic conditions -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067986
Ireland -- Economic policy
Subject Ireland
Irland
Form Electronic book
Author Maher, Eamon, editor.
O'Brien, Eugene, 1958- editor.
ISBN 9781781707197
1781707197
9781526101488
1526101483
9781526101471
1526101475
OTHER TI University press scholarship online