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Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy (Contemporary Irish Studies)

By Michael Cronin , Peadar Kirby , Luke Gibbons

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0745318258, 9780745318257, 074531824X, 9780745318240
LCC
DA959.1 .R45 2002
Open Library ID
OL3939528M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1950097 bytes)
Pages
240\237
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
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Description

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 neo-liberal 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.

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