Maher / Unknown / O'Brien From prosperity to austerity

A socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0148-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Maher, Eamon

O'Brien, Eugene

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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