Cover

From prosperity to austerity

Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien

1 Crisis, what crisis? The Catholic Church during the Celtic Tiger Years: Eamon Maher

2 The Celtic Tiger and the new Irish religious market: Catherine Maignant

3 Shattered assumptions: a tale of two traumas: Brendan Geary

4 ‘Tendency­wit’: the cultural unconscious of the Celtic Tiger in the writings of Paul Howard: Eugene O’Brien

5 Popular music and the Celtic Tiger: Gerry Smyth

6 ‘What does a woman want?’: Irish contemporary women’s fiction and the expression of desire in an era of plenty: Sylvie Miko

7 Topographies of terror: photography and the post-­Celtic Tiger landscape: Justin Carville

8 Immigration and the Celtic Tiger: Bryan Fanning

9 ‘What rough beast’? Monsters of post-­Celtic Tiger Ireland: Kieran Keohane and Carmen Kuhling

10 Women, fictional messages and a crucial decade: Mary Pierse

11 ‘A hundred thousand welcomes’: food and wine as cultural signifiers: Brian Murphy

12 Contemporary Irish fiction and the indirect gaze: Neil Murphy

13 ‘Holes in the ground’: theatre as critic and conscience of Celtic Tiger Ireland: Vic Merriman

14 ‘Ship of fools’: the Celtic Tiger and poetry as social critique: Eóin Flannery

15 Between modernity and marginality: Celtic Tiger cinema: Ruth Barton

Conclusion: Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien

Index