Rezension
«Recalling the Celtic Tiger offers a much needed reappraisal of a hugely important sea change in modern Irish society. By tackling issues surrounding religion, literature and culture, in addition to the financial and economic factors, the short essays provide a comprehensive analysis of how Ireland was affected by the years of boom and bust.»
(Declan Kiberd, Keough Professor of Irish Studies at Notre Dame University)
«‘The Celtic Tiger was a dramatic period in Irish history when a troubled and economically backward country suddenly seemed to have discovered Aladdin's lamp and all its wishes came true. It was liberating, exhilarating, self-delusional and ultimately disastrous and we are still living with its dodgy legacy. This brilliantly conceived kaleidoscope of a book, with its constantly shifting perspectives and superbly succinct mini-essays, is full of information, insight, wit and judgement and amounts to the best overview of the excitement and the madness we are ever likely to get.»
(Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times journalist and writer)
«Recalling the Celtic Tiger is full of short, digestible reads which remind us of the sheer breadth of the collapse and the socio-cultural context which was often drowned out by an overconcentration on economic analysis.»
(Miriam O’Callaghan, Broadcaster and Journalist.)
«a timely and useful reminder that the Tiger and its demise was not just, or even primarily, an economic phenomenon, but had profound socio-cultural roots and ongoing impact»
(Sarah Carey, Columnist and Broadcaster)
Inhalt
CONTENTS: Accidental Landlords – Advertising – Ahern, Bertie – Anglo-Irish Tapes – Ansbacher Accounts –Auditors – Bailout – Balanced Regional Development – Banks – Bank Regulation – Bank Solvency Crisis – Banville, John – Barrett, Sean – Black Economy – Bondholders – Browne, Vincent – Buy-to-lets – Cardiff, Kevin – Chopra, Ajai – Cinema and the Celtic Tiger – Coffee Culture – Commission on the Private Rented Sector – Communications – Contracts for Difference (CFD) – Craft beer – Credit Rating Agencies – Credit Default Swap – Cross, Dorothy – Debt – Design and the Celtic Tiger – Dining Out – Divorce – ECB – Economists – Electric Gates in the Celtic Tiger – Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) – Entrepreneurship – ESRI – Euro – Fianna Fáil – Fianna Fáil and Social Partnership: The Boom – Fianna Fáil and Social Partnership: The Bust – Free Market – Gastro-tourism – Ghost Estates – Golf Clubs – Harney, Mary – Hillen, Sean – Higgins, Michael D. – Honohan, Patrick – Howard, Paul – Human Resource Management – IAS 39 – IFAC – IMMA – Independent Politicians – International Monetary Fund – International Context – Internet – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council – Kelly, Morgan – Liquidity crisis – Media and the Celtic Tiger, the watch-dog that didn’t bark – Merkel, Angela – Mobile Technology – Mortgages – Murphy Report – National Accounts – National Treasury Management Agency NAMA – Neary, Patrick – Negative Equity – Neoliberalism – Novels of the Celtic Tiger – Nyberg Report – One Hundred Per Cent mortgages – Oireachtas Joint Committee Report – Peace Process and Anglo Irish Relations… – Peace Process (A French Perspective) – Photography – PIIGS Countries – Poetry – Political Economy – Professional service firms – Progressive Democrats – Property boom – Public Finances in the CT – Publishing – The Irish Pub – Quinn, Sean – Ratings Agencies – Referendums – Regling-Watson report – Repossessions – Riverdance – Road network – Ryan, Donal
– Ryan Report – Second Houses – Shopping Trips to New York – Short Selling – Single Currency – Social Housing – Solvency crisis – Sports – SSIA – Saint Patrick’s Day Massacre Of Shares – Suburban Literature – Theatre of the Celtic Tiger – TARGET2 – The Euro – Trade Unions – Tourism – The Troika – U2 – Unemployment – Unfinished Estates – Universities – ‘We all partied’ – Wine Culture – Women and the Church – Women in the Celtic Tiger – Women Writers
