Title: Global Ireland : same difference /
Authors: Inglis, Tom.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Culture and globalization Ireland.; Ireland Economic conditions; Ireland Social conditions
Abstract: "Global Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the "Celtic Tiger," a country with a booming economy based on knowledge and high tech industries. Using a number of case studies of Ireland's transition, Tom Inglis explains what this means for traditional Irish culture and society and offers an incisive social portrait of globalizing Ireland."--Jacket.
Contents: The global as local and personal -- Same difference -- The Global Irish -- Difference -- Sameness -- Ballivor -- Conclusion.