Transforming Ireland

This is the first sustained and broad-ranging critique of the legacies of Ireland's Celtic Tiger boom. Contributors identify the damaging impact that the free market has had on a wide range of areas in public life, including the media and the pharmaceutical industry, and also examine its influence on health, education, state surveillance, immigrants, the welfare state, consumerism and the Irish language. Challenging the notion that there is no alternative for Ireland but the present economic and political dispensation, experts map out an alternative politics that could create spaces for hope and renewal in contemporary Ireland. In a society whose public debates have been largely dominated by the instrumentalist logic of stockbroker economists and the regressive populism of talk-radio shock jocks, Transforming Ireland offers a more substantial and considered analysis, uncovering hidden aspects of everyday Irish life. It reveals that, virtually unnoticed by the media, there exist lively debates in today's Ireland which draw on international insights about globalisation to probe how it is reshaping Irish society. Covering four principal topics - culture and society, media and social change, social control, and power and politics - this impressive volume opens new and hopeful perspectives for students and also the general reader. Though primarily a book about Ireland, it is also a book about today's form of globalisation, offering a rare and accessible analysis of the damage done to society when market forces are given free rein.

ISBN 071907892X   Pages 256 ISBN13 9780719078927 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 567 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 01 Sep 2009   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 338.9417   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

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1		Transforming Ireland: challenges by Michael Cronin and Peadar Kirby and Debbie Ging		1
2		The Irish language and Ireland's socio-economic development by John Walsh		21
3		If I wanted to go there I wouldn't start from here: re-imagining a multi-ethnic nation by Piaras Mac Einri		38
4		All-consuming images: new gender formations in post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland by Debbie Ging		52
5		Irish neoliberalism, media and the politics of discourse by Sean Phelan		73
6		Republic of Ireland PLC - testing the limits of marketisation by Roddy Flynn		89
7		Rebel spirits? From reaction to regulation by Michael Cronin		109
8		Irish education, mercantile transformations and a deeply discharged public sphere by Denis O'Sullivan		123
9		Pharmaceuticals, progress and psychiatric contention in early twenty-first century Ireland by Orla O'Donovan		139
10		Celtic, Christian and cosmopolitan: 'migrants' and the mediation of exceptional globalisation by Gavan Titley		157
11		The politics of redirecting social policy: towards a double movement by Mary Murphy		174
12		Contesting the politics of inequality by Peadar Kirby		190
13		Transforming Ireland: resources by Peadar Kirby and Debbie Ging and Michael Cronin		205
		Bibliography		224
		Index		248

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