... subsequent crisis must be understood at multiple spatial scales, including the global and the European. Our own particular Irish crisis cannot be discussed in isolation from these larger scales. The Celtic Tiger in its prime was the Irish version of global neoliberalism, while the Irish crisis...

..., as well as an epoch of enormous literary creativity, it is still dealing with the devastations of the 2008 global financial crisis that led to the overnight meltdown of the Celtic Tiger and to what might be called a “decade of austerities.” The collapse of the Celtic Tiger, and the sense of supine...

... literary and cultural life has generally remained eerily becalmed and consensual, even soporific; the sudden and sharp meltdown of the Celtic Tiger notwithstanding, many of the country’s leading writers have more or less ignored the crisis or have lined up with establishment- and corporate-friendly...

... Dream functions primarily to signify economic opportunity and suc- cess, using social mobility as its gauge. It is this version that is adopted by the Irish government of the Celtic Tiger years. As Fintan O’Toole has argued, the Irish government presiding over the economic boom “intended...

... as eccen- tric and residual figures. If he sometimes lampoons the sexual mores of the past, Ferriter can also resort to weakly moralizing critiques of contempo- rary sexual culture. He uncritically cites media “concern” about young girls being “prematurely sexualized” in Celtic Tiger Ireland...

... reputation for spirituality and imagina- tion, contemporary Ireland is experiencing the strange sensation of meet- ing itself coming back.10 The deregulated forms of spirituality that were gaining ground in Ire- land during the Celtic Tiger boom, and that have continued to flourish in the bust...

...-Levinasian language of suffering they had nothing; but they were willing to sacrifice it all as the publicity material for the film stated). At the same time, more complexly, the Irish are identified here not with the Asian (as in the metaphor of the Celtic Tiger) but with the American black...

... to the Celtic Tiger boom period, which ought more properly to be associated with the lip-synced pap of ‘‘boy bands’’ such as Boyzone or Westlife. The roots of Irish music’s current success might be traced back, rather, to the international folk revival of the 1960s, which cre- ated an appreciative new...

...?” Ethnopolitics 7, no. 1: 101–18. O’Leary, Brendan, and John McGarry. 1993. The Politics of Antagonism: Under- standing Northern Ireland. London: Athlone Press. Ó Riain, Seán. 2014. The Rise and Fall of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger: Liberalism, Boom and Bust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

... the upbeat mood of the opening Celtic Tiger boom decade in a way Deane’s work did not; today, as that boom gives way to bust, Deane’s reserve may seem well warranted. Cleary / Seamus Deane’s Sundered Provinces 11 ception of Irish cultural history be handily referenced...

... to explain and jus- tify the present intensified the historiographical debate, propelling the anx- ious search for a history that would liberate Irish people from their history. In the 1990s, there was an audible collective exhalation of the national breath: with the advent of the Celtic Tiger, the IRA...