... John Kerrigan Gene Mercier Paul O’Connor Niamh Fianna Fáil recession Jenkinson Rosemary Troubles the Farrell Michael O’Reilly Sean Introduction Celtic-Tiger Ireland Contemporary Irish literature Inward migration Culture and migration Interculturalism Muticulturalism When Ireland became...

...This chapter analyses the depiction of immigrants in Celtic Tiger and post-Celtic Tiger novels, revealing – like the previous chapters – the existence of diverse literary responses to multiethnicity in Ireland. The author identifies an evolution in the Irish novels published between 2000 and 2010...

...This chapter considers McGahern’s last novel, That They May Face the Rising Sun and selected stories, alongside the novels and stories of the handful of writers who, during the Celtic Tiger era and beyond, attempted to provide a mirror image of their multicultural society through...

...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...

... 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...

... whom the burden of the Irish past appears to sit more lightly. Nevertheless, she engages with recognisably Irish themes such as emigration, child abuse, the Celtic Tiger boom/bust and rural life. Enright Anne Guardian Laureate for Irish Fiction Man Booker Prize O’Connor Sinéad Tóibín Colm...

...This book examines the phenomenon of the rise and fall of the Irish Celtic Tiger from a cultural perspective. It looks at Ireland's regression from prosperity to austerity in terms of a society as opposed to just an economy. Using literary and cultural theory, it looks at how this period...

... 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...