Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy (Contemporary Irish Studies)
by Peadar Kirby, Michael Cronin (Editor), Luke Gibbons (Editor)
Contemporary Irish Studies
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Peadar Kirby is a senior lecturer in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University
Michael Cronin is Professor of Translation Studies at Dublin City University. He is the author of Translation and Globalization (2003). Translation and Identity (2006), Translation goes to the Movies (2009) and Translation in the Digital Age (2013).
Luke Gibbons is professor of Irish lierary and cultural studies at Maynooth University, Ireland, and the author of several books
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