Celtic Tiger in Collapse

Celtic Tiger in Collapse

Author: Peadar Kirby

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-02-17

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0230278035

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Since the first edition there have been fundamental changes in the Irish growth model. The sudden collapse of the Irish economy in 2008 raises questions such as: why the sudden and deep decline in economic growth? What are the prospects for a return to growth? Answering these questions and more, this book is the definitive work on the Celtic Tiger.


The Fall of the Celtic Tiger

The Fall of the Celtic Tiger

Author: Donal Donovan

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-06-06

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0199663955

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Examines how the Celtic Tiger, an economy that was hailed as one of the most successful in history, fell into a macroeconomic abyss necessitating an unheard of bail-out. A highly-readable account of the unprecedented near collapse of the Irish economy, it covers property market bubbles, regulatory incompetency, and disastrous economic policies.


Ship of Fools

Ship of Fools

Author: Fintan O'Toole

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2010-03-02

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1586488821

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The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The "Irish Economic miracle" was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until the 1980s Ireland was by the standards of the developed world so economically backward that the only way was up. And as it began to catch up to European and American averages, the Irish economy could boast some seemingly remarkable statistics. These lured in investors, the Irish deregulated and all but abandoned financial oversight, and a great Irish financial ceilidh began. It would last for a decade. When the global financial crash of 2008 arrived it struck Ireland harder than anywhere - even Iceland looked like a model of rectitude compared to the fiasco that stretched from Cork to Dublin. There was an avalanche of statistics as toxic as the property-based assets that lay beneath many of them And under all this rubble lay the corpse of the Celtic Tiger. How Ireland managed to achieve such a spectacular implosion is a stunning story of corruption, carelessness and venality, told with passion and fury by one of Ireland's most respected journalists and commentators.


The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger

The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger

Author: Seán Ó Riain

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1139915908

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In 2008 Ireland experienced one of the most dramatic economic crises of any economy in the world. It remains at the heart of the international crisis, sitting uneasily between the US and European economies. Not long ago, however, Ireland was celebrated as an example of successful market-led globalisation and economic growth. How can we explain the Irish crisis? What does it tell us about the causes of the international crisis? How should we rethink our understanding of contemporary economies and the workings of economic liberalism based on the Irish experience? This book combines economic sociology and comparative political economy to analyse the causes, dynamics and implications of Ireland's economic 'boom to bust'. It examines the interplay between the financial system, European integration and Irish national politics to show how financial speculation overwhelmed the economic and social development of the 1990s 'Celtic Tiger'.


From Prosperity to Austerity

From Prosperity to Austerity

Author: Eugene O'Brien

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2014-09-04

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780719091674

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This collection examines the Celtic Tiger, the Irish economic phenomenon and the subsequent financial disaster, from a socio-cultural perspective. Employing a wide range of cultural lenses, the book critiques the cultural, political and aesthetic implications of the progression from prosperity to austerity and the impact this has had on the psyche of Irish culture. An eclectic mix of theoretical approaches enables treatment of religion, literature, popular culture, photography, gastronomy, music, gender, immigration and film, as contributors assess how the Celtic Tiger was represented, or misrepresented, in these particular spheres of experience. This book will be of interest to academics and students who are interested in contemporary Ireland and recent Irish history, as well as to the general reader anxious to understand the effects of this period on the real lives of people as expressed through culture. It features contributions by internationally acknowledged experts in their fields and offers a comprehensive overview of the cultural consequences of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath.


Transforming Ireland

Transforming Ireland

Author: Debbie Ging

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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As Ireland's economic boom grounds to a sudden halt, Transforming Ireland offers a diverse range of critical analyses of its legacies across different areas of Irish life - the media, racism, consumerism, sports, education, state surveillance and the pharmaceutical industry. The book also maps out a politics of change for Irish society.


The end of Irish history?

The end of Irish history?

Author: Colin Coulter

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-07-30

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1526137712

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Ireland appears to be in the process of a remarkable social change, a process which has dramatically reversed a hitherto seemingly unstoppable economic decline. This exciting new book systematically scrutinises the interpretations and prescriptions that inform the 'Celtic Tiger'. Takes the standpoint that a more critical approach to the course of development being followed by the Republic is urgently required. Sets out to expose the fallacies that drive the fashionable rhetoric of Tigerhood. An esteemed list of contributors deal with issues such as immigration, the role of women, globalisation, and changing economic and social conditions.


When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out

When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out

Author: David J. J. Lynch

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2010-11-09

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0230112277

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Few countries have been as dramatically transformed in recent years as Ireland. Once a culturally repressed land shadowed by terrorism and on the brink of economic collapse, Ireland finally emerged in the late 1990s as the fastest-growing country in Europe, with the typical citizen enjoying a higher standard of living than the average Brit. Just a few years after celebrating their newly-won status among the world's richest societies, the Irish are now saddled with a wounded, shrinking economy, soaring unemployment, and ruined public finances. After so many centuries of impoverishment, how did the Irish finally get rich, and how did they then fritter away so much so quickly? Veteran journalist David J. Lynch offers an insightful, character-driven narrative of how the Irish boom came to be and how it went bust. He opens our eyes to a nation's downfall through the lived experience of individual citizens: the people responsible for the current crisis as well as the ordinary men and women enduring it.


The Pope's Children

The Pope's Children

Author: David McWilliams

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-01-11

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1118045378

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Named for the ironic coincidence of the Irish baby boom of the 1970s, which peaked nine months to the day after Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to Dublin, The Pope’s Children is both a celebration and bitingly funny portrait of the first generation of the Celtic Tiger—the beneficiaries of the economic miracle that propelled Ireland from centuries of deprivation into a nation that now enjoys one of the highest living standards in the world.


The Devil I Know

The Devil I Know

Author: Claire Kilroy

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 080212237X

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In exile after being ousted from the family castle, recovering alcoholic Tristram St. Lawrence finds himself back in Dublin when an old acquaintance pitches a development project that his sponsor, a mysterious businessman, supports.