Table of Contents

Contributors
1. The Reinvention of Ireland: A Critical Perspective by Peadar Kirby, Luke Gibbons and Michael Cronin
Section I: Economy and Society
2. Contested Pedigrees of the Celtic Tiger by Peadar Kirby
3. Culture and State in Ireland’s New Economy by Michel Peillon
4. Speed Limits: Ireland, Globalisation and the War against Time by Michael Cronin
Section II: Public Spaces
5. Citizenship and Education: A Crisis of the Republic? by Joseph Dunne
6. The Global Cure? History, Therapy and the Celtic Tiger by Luke Gibbons
Section III: Historical Legacies
7. Colonialism and the Celtic Tiger: Legacies of History and the Quest for Vision by Geraldine Moane
8: Religion and the Celtic Tiger: The Cultural Legacies of Anti-Catholicism in Ireland by Lionel Pilkington
Section IV: Media
9. The Celtic Tiger’s Media Pundits by Barra Ó Séaghdha
10. Broadcasting and the Celtic Tiger: From Promise to Practice by Roddy Flynn
11. Screening the Green: Cinema under the Celtic Tiger by Debbie Ging
12. Conclusions and Transformations by Peadar Kirby, Luke Gibbons and Michael Cronin
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Michael Cronin is Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies and Dean of the Joint Faculty of Humanities, Dublin City University. Luke Gibbons is Professor of English, and Film, Theatre and Television, at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Peadar Kirby is a lecturer in the School of Communications, Dublin City University.

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