... had sharply criticised all of the government’s budgets since Fianna Fáil and the PDs had taken office in 1997. While acknowledging that the economy had done very well, he pointed to the large number of individuals who he claimed had been left behind by the Celtic Tiger. He demanded that social welfare...

... Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1949, trans. 1953) fluently theorizes this dual aesthetic and political identity, thereby bridging the high modernism of James Joyce and the postcolonial spectrality of Haunted Historiographies’ Post-Celtic Tiger authors. Beckett Samuel...

...Eugene O'Brien argues that the cultural unconscious of the Celtic Tiger is to be found in the humorous narratives of Paul Howard and his fictional Celtic Tiger cub, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly. Freud has noted that ‘the realm of jokes has no boundaries’ and it is in humour that the repressed Lacanian...

...This chapter examines novelistic responses to the multifaceted changes that characterized life in Dublin during and after the Celtic Tiger era. The first part explores portrayals of changing personal, moral, and artistic value systems at a time when the forces of globalization were altering...

... and policies. Banshee Barry Kevin Baume Sara Bohemyth The Celtic Tiger era financial crash 2008 Ireland Chair of Poetry Irish Children’s Laureate Irish Fiction Laureate Kilroy Claire McBride Eimear McInerney Lisa Moth The Murray Paul Penny Dreadful The post millennial Irish fiction publishing...

...This chapter examines how Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer-winning memoir, Angela’s Ashes, ironically recapitulates and inverts the narrative modes and aesthetic emphases of Irish late modernism in the context of Ireland’s short-lived “Celtic Tiger” boom at the end of the twentieth century...

... firms in the software sector, by far the biggest success 225 story of the Celtic tiger, did not arrive until after indigenous firms were already successful ( O’Hearn 1998 ; Breznitz 2007 ; Fitzgibbon 2011 ). Irish institutions, being late to support innovation among multinationals and domestic firms...

... become the major merchandise export sectors of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ era and beyond. Each of these sectors was already dominated by high-profile US MNCs on the eve of EEC accession. cost competitiveness European Economic Community EEC Irish accession to 1973 industrial goods motor vehicle assembly OECD...

.... At the cusp of the twenty-first century, Ireland grappled with cultural alterations arising from the newfound affluence of the Celtic Tiger, widespread revelations of childhood sexual abuse across the island, and the promise of peace in Northern Ireland. Anne Enright’s The Gathering (2007...

...The remarkable macroeconomic fluctuations Ireland experienced since the 1980s make it a particularly interesting case to study inequality and its impacts. Prolonged stagnation was followed by rapid economic growth during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ period, and the onset of the economic crisis brought...

... not merely as consequences of the “Celtic Tiger” boom but also as signifiers of the need for a new conceptualisation of the relationship between “nation” and “Europe”. In the past, Hayward argues, this has been heavily premised on romantic nationalist notions of Celtic heritage and Ireland's “ancient...

... four looks at the relevance of the ecogothic as an analytical resource in dealing with (post-)Celtic Tiger literature, namely, Claire Kilroy’s The Devil I Know. Kilroy’s narrative foregrounds the environmental degradation that was a feature of the Irish ‘boom’ period, and demonstrates...

...The Introduction traces the formation of a Modern Irish Art by art historians and critics. The impact of the art market and collectors during the Celtic Tiger resulted in increased institutional and academic interest in the subject, while also provoking a critical reaction against the phenomenon...

...Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland is the first full-length monograph in the market to address the impact that Celtic-Tiger immigration has exerted on the poetry, drama and fiction of contemporary Irish writers. The book opens with a lively, challenging preface by Prof...

... Tiger Years (1995-2008), the period of Ireland’s rapid economic growth. The different patterns of migration are discussed and the various backgrounds of migrants investigated. The chapter illustrates how the Celtic Tiger years have changed the scope and type of Muslim immigration and settlement: from...

... heights of the Celtic Tiger in the early to mid-2000s, to the spectacular collapse of the banks in 2008–9 one constant remained: politically the Irish electorate would look to traditional solutions when it came to the ballot box. The Irish voter, while occasionally happy to flirt with minor parties...

... and language of poetry. The chapter focuses on three poets whose work has pushed against the constant reproduction of “well-made poems”: Ciaran Carson, Medbh McGuckian and Catherine Walsh. aesthetic conservatism Celtic Tiger civility commodity counter insurgency form formalism Irish poetic tradition...

... and decline more precipitously when they are not. This provides a framework through which the later Celtic Tiger era might be viewed. The book ends by summarizing the evidence on the share of foreign-owned firms in manufacturing employment over the first half-century of independence. Cumann na nGaedheal...

... emphatically within the moment of their composition rather than those periods during which they are set (1950s and 1920s). It contends that they must be read in the context of wider Irish discourses of self-analysis that accompanied the collapse of the Celtic Tiger economy, discourses which troubled...