Author: Eamon Maher Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039118519 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 264
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In the space of a few short decades, Ireland has become one of the most globalised societies in the Western world. The full ramifications of this transformation for traditional Irish communities, religious practice, economic activity, as well as literature and the arts, are as yet unknown. What is known is that Ireland's largely unthinking embrace of globalisation has at times had negative consequences. Unlike some other European countries, Ireland has eagerly and sometimes recklessly grasped the opportunities for material advancement afforded by the global project. This collection of essays, largely the fruit of two workshops organised under the auspices of the Humanities Institute of Ireland at University College Dublin and the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies in the Institute of Technology, Tallaght, explores how globalisation has taken such a firm hold on Irish society and provides a cultural perspective on the phenomenon. The book is divided into two sections. The first examines various manifestations of globalisation in Irish society whereas the second focuses on literary representations of globalisation. The contributors, acknowledged experts in the areas of cultural theory, religion, sociology and literature, offer a panoply of viewpoints of Ireland's interaction with globalisation.
Author: Tom Inglis Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135945799 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 303
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Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland in the past fifteen years. Tom Inglis explains what this means for traditional Irish culture and society and offers an incisive social portrait of globalizing Ireland.
Author: Estelle Epinoux Publisher: ISBN: 9781527530133 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This collective volume provides the reader with an exploration of Latin America from an Irish perspective. The contributors have explored the multiple, and sometimes surprising, links that exist between Ireland and Latin America, touching on specific features of these links such as the political and cultural influence of the Irish diaspora and their political relations. These topics are examined through different media, including literature, films, history, poetry and sociology, and offer an opportunity to discover an aspect of Irish culture and history that has not been widely studied. The authors deal with these questions from different cultural perspectives within past and present contexts, exploring two cultures and histories which, at times, are linked through their shared destinies. They also provide the reader with different national perspectives. In presenting the long-lasting and multifaceted relationships between Ireland and Latin America, the contributors have helped to deepen our understanding of a part of Ireland's historical heritage that deserves more focus.
Author: Padraig Kirwan Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039118304 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 342
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The writers in this text seek to reconcile the established critical perspectives of Irish studies with a forward-looking critical momentum that incorporates the realities of globalisation and economic migration.
Author: Juan F. Elices Agudo Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 144383100X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 285
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The transformations undergone by Ireland in the last decades have relocated the country within that liminal space of the local and the global. The country of the deeply-rooted rural traditions, the severely religious impositions and the fragile economic system became in the 1990s a world referent due to its unprecedented and impressive growth. However, the emergence of the so-called Celtic Tiger and the recognition that Ireland had become one of the most globalised nations in the Western world met a dramatic downfall that has left the country (pre)occupied with matters concerning its re-positioning and re-definition within a wider European framework. The cultural and artistic productivity of this nation has also moved away from the topical insularity of the past, adopting more transnational and universal subjects, at the same time that it has struggled to retain its genuine values and its own signs of identity. For, in Ireland, the more this global progress has grown to be unavoidable, the more evocatively the local has befallen. Therefore, the editors of this volume contend that the global and the local should be understood not as opposed concepts but as two ends of a continuum of interaction. Within this state of affairs, this volume comprises a series of articles that revolve around the issue of glocality in Irish literature, culture and cinema in order to disentangle the complexities that underlie this concept and which are inextricably related to the drastic changes undertaken by Ireland in the years before and after the economic boom and posterior bailout.
Author: Finbarr Bradley Publisher: Blackhall Publishing ISBN: 9781842181492 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 372
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After two decades of exceptional economic growth and cultural change, Ireland faces the greatest challenge yet: creating a sustainable competitive advantage to guarantee its success in the future. Finbarr Bradley and James Kennelly recommend a renewed sense of national identity as social and cultural capital to maintain and enhance Ireland’s economic development.
Author: Chris Morash Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107039428 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 229
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Morash and Richards present an original approach to understanding how theatre has produced distinctively Irish senses of space and place.
Author: Eamon Maher
Author: Tom Inglis
Author: Estelle Epinoux
Author: Padraig Kirwan
Author: Peadar Kirby
Author: Juan F. Elices Agudo
Author: Finbarr Bradley
Author: Joe Cleary
Author: Chris Morash
Author: Malcolm MacLachlan