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Abstract
Over the last decade the Irish economy has 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 book challenge the largely positive interpretation of Ireland's changing social order.
The authors identify the ways in which culture and society have been made subservient to the needs of the market in this new neoliberal Ireland. They draw on subversive strands in Irish history and offer 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.
'At the cutting edge of social and cultural commentary on Ireland'
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | iii | ||
| 1 Introduction: The Reinvention of Ireland: A Critical Perspective | 1 | ||
| The Celtic Tiger and its Orthodoxy | 4 | ||
| Interrogating Culture | 9 | ||
| Sites of Resistance and Reinvention | 15 | ||
| Notes | 17 | ||
| 2 Contested Pedigrees of the Celtic Tiger | 21 | ||
| 3 Culture and State in Ireland's New Economy | 38 | ||
| Culture and Economy in Tension | 39 | ||
| The Implosion of Economy and Culture | 46 | ||
| Conclusion: The End of Culture as Critique | 52 | ||
| 4 Speed Limits: Ireland, Globalisation and the War against Time | 54 | ||
| From Geo-politics to Chrono-politics | 55 | ||
| Revolting Farmers | 58 | ||
| Fixed Margins and Immigration Controls | 60 | ||
| A Step Forward? | 63 | ||
| Notes | 66 | ||
| 5 Citizenship and Education: A Crisis of the Republic? | 69 | ||
| Patriotism and Civic Virtue: From Nationalism to Republicanism | 72 | ||
| The Classical Ideal in the Passage to Modernity: Liberal Qualms | 76 | ||
| Citizenship and Malaises of Modernity | 77 | ||
| A Renewal of Civil Society? | 81 | ||
| The Role of the State and the Education of Citizens | 84 | ||
| Notes | 86 | ||
| 6 The Global Cure? History, Therapy and the Celtic Tiger | 89 | ||
| Soundtracks for the Soul | 92 | ||
| Ghosts of the Recent Past | 94 | ||
| The Owl and the Tiger | 99 | ||
| Cosmopolitanism in a Historical Frame | 100 | ||
| Conclusion | 104 | ||
| Notes | 105 | ||
| 7 Colonialism and the Celtic Tiger: Legacies of History and the Quest for Vision | 109 | ||
| Colonialism and the Celtic Tiger | 111 | ||
| Psychology and the Legacies of History | 113 | ||
| Psychosocial Legacies of History I: Cultural Pathologies | 117 | ||
| Psychosocial Legacies of History II: Cultural Strengths | 120 | ||
| The Importance of Vision | 122 | ||
| 8 Religion and the Celtic Tiger: The Cultural Legacies of Anti-Catholicism in Ireland | 124 | ||
| Drumcree | 125 | ||
| Ireland's Privileged Minority | 131 | ||
| Catholicism and the Irish State | 135 | ||
| Conclusion | 137 | ||
| Note | 139 | ||
| 9 The Celtic Tiger's Media Pundits | 143 | ||
| Setting the Pattern: Conor Cruise O'Brien | 145 | ||
| In the Master's Footsteps | 148 | ||
| Questions Asked and Unasked | 158 | ||
| Conclusion | 159 | ||
| Notes | 159 | ||
| 10 Broadcasting and the Celtic Tiger: From Promise to Practice | 160 | ||
| Broadcasting and the Irish State: the Historical Context | 161 | ||
| Liberalising the Airwaves | 162 | ||
| TV3: Commercial Fare | 164 | ||
| Regulatory Capture | 168 | ||
| Impact on Public Service Broadcasting | 170 | ||
| Conclusion | 173 | ||
| Notes | 175 | ||
| 11 Screening the Green: Cinema under the Celtic Tiger | 177 | ||
| Irish Cinema's Golden Age | 178 | ||
| From Traveller to Trainspotting: Irish Cinema Goes Global | 185 | ||
| From Here to Post-modernity | 189 | ||
| New Irish Cinema - Coming Soon? ? | 192 | ||
| Notes | 193 | ||
| 12 Conclusions and Transformations | 196 | ||
| Reinvented Ireland | 197 | ||
| Sites of Resistance and Transformation | 198 | ||
| Towards a Cultural Politics of 'Dynamic Rootedness' | 204 | ||
| Valuing Interdependence | 207 | ||
| Note | 208 | ||
| Bibliography | 209 | ||
| Contributors | 222 | ||
| Index | 224 | ||
| Aboriginal peoples, Australia 102 | 102 | ||
| abortion | 119 |