Contents -- 1 Introduction: The Reinvention of Ireland: A Critical Perspective -- The Celtic Tiger and its Orthodoxy -- Interrogating Culture -- Sites of Resistance and Reinvention -- Notes -- 2 Contested Pedigrees of the Celtic Tiger -- Cultural Political Economy -- Inventing Ireland -- The Bases for Ireland's Reinvention -- Principles of Integration: Nationalist versus Neo-liberal Ireland -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Culture and State in Ireland's New Economy -- Culture and Economy in Tension -- The Implosion of Economy and Culture -- Conclusion: The End of Culture as Critique -- 4 Speed Limits: Ireland, Globalisation and the War against Time -- From Geo-politics to Chrono-politics -- Revolting Farmers -- Fixed Margins and Immigration Controls -- A Step Forward? -- Notes -- 5 Citizenship and Education: A Crisis of the Republic? -- Patriotism and Civic Virtue: From Nationalism to Republicanism -- The Classical Ideal in the Passage to Modernity: Liberal Qualms -- Citizenship and Malaises of Modernity -- A Renewal of Civil Society? -- The Role of the State and the Education of Citizens -- Notes -- 6 The Global Cure? History, Therapy and the Celtic Tiger -- Soundtracks for the Soul -- Ghosts of the Recent Past -- The Owl and the Tiger -- Cosmopolitanism in a Historical Frame -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Colonialism and the Celtic Tiger: Legacies of History and the Quest for Vision -- Colonialism and the Celtic Tiger -- Psychology and the Legacies of History -- Psychosocial Legacies of History I: Cultural Pathologies -- Psychosocial Legacies of History II: Cultural Strengths -- The Importance of Vision -- 8 Religion and the Celtic Tiger: The Cultural Legacies of Anti-Catholicism in Ireland -- Drumcree -- Ireland's Privileged Minority -- Catholicism and the Irish State -- Conclusion -- Note -- 9 The Celtic Tiger's Media Pundits.

Setting the Pattern: Conor Cruise O'Brien -- In the Master's Footsteps -- Questions Asked and Unasked -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 Broadcasting and the Celtic Tiger: From Promise to Practice -- Broadcasting and the Irish State: the Historical Context -- Liberalising the Airwaves -- TV3: Commercial Fare -- Regulatory Capture -- Impact on Public Service Broadcasting -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 Screening the Green: Cinema under the Celtic Tiger -- Irish Cinema's Golden Age -- From Traveller to Trainspotting: Irish Cinema Goes Global -- From Here to Post-modernity -- New Irish Cinema - Coming Soon? ? -- Notes -- 12 Conclusions and Transformations -- Reinvented Ireland -- Sites of Resistance and Transformation -- Towards a Cultural Politics of 'Dynamic Rootedness' -- Valuing Interdependence -- Note -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Aboriginal peoples, Australia 102 -- abortion -- 119 -- 183 -- About Adam [Stembridge] -- 12 -- 178 -- 186 -- 189 -- 191 -- Accelerator [Vinny Murphy] -- 178 -- 187 -- 188 -- 191 -- Adam, Heribert 91 -- Adorno, Theodor -- 44 -- 97 -- Aiken, Frank -- 103 -- 104 -- air travel 57 -8 -- Airey, Siobhán -- 58 -- 61 -- 62 -- alcohol and drug consumption -- 110 -- 117 -18 -- Allen, Kieran 5 -- Amongst Women -- 11 -- 96 -- An t-Éireannach -- 133 -- 152 -- Anderson, Benedict 199 -- Angela 's Ashes -- 96 -- 192 -- 193 -- Anglo-Irish Agreement [1987] 146 -- Anne Devlin [Pat Murphy] 182 -- Apocalypse Now [Coppola] 95 -- Apprentice Boys 145 -- Aristotle -- 74 -- 75 -- arts -- and social change 44 -- and versions of past 10 -12 -- asylum-seekers -- 61 -- 62 -3 -- Atlantean [Quinn] 180 -- Bakhtin, Mikhail 184 -- Ballroom of Romance, The [O 'Connor] -- 10 -- 96 -- Barton, Ruth 190 -- Bauman, Zygmunt -- 58 -- 61 -- 204 -5 -- Beaumont, Seán Nelson 133 -- Beck, Ulrich 204 -- Behan, Brendan 132 -- Belfast Agreement 157 -- Bell, Daniel.

42 -- 47 -- Bent Out of Shape [Walsh] 186 -- Bernard, John Henry 128 -- Bew, Paul 15 -- Big House -- 27 -- 133 -- Bishop 's Story , The [Quinn] 180 -- Black Hole, Green Card [O 'Toole] -- 155 -- 156 -- Blair, Tony 126 -- Blow Dry [Breathnach] 192 -- Bolger, Dermot 7 -- Bourke, Jim 64 -- Bowen, Elizabeth 133 -- Bowen, Kurt -- 131 -- 133 -- Bradshaw, Brendan 27 -- Brady, Eugene -- 181 -- 186 -- Breathnach, Paddy -- 191 -- 192 -- broadcasting -- 160 -75 -- advertising expenditure 172 -- commercial 162 -75 -- historical context 161 -2 -- liberalisation 162 -4 -- licence fee 171 -- public service obligation 164 -- public service obligation 170 -3 -- public service obligation 175 -- regulation 168 -70 -- Broadcasting Acts -- 98 -- 161 -- 163 -- 164 -- Broadcasting and Wireless Telegraphy Act 162 -- Brown, Terence -- 131 -- 134 -- Budawanny 180 -- Burke, Ray -- 160 -- 162 -- 163 -- 164 -- 165 -- Buskers [Power] 186 -- Butcher Boy , The [Jordan] -- 10 -11 -- 96 -- 98 -- 189 -- 191 -- Butler, Hubert 131 -- Byrne, Gay 174 -- Cairns, David 178 -- Canwest Global -- 166 -- 167 -- 168 -- Carr, Patricia 51 -- Casement, Roger 100 -1 -- Castells, Manuel 31 -- Catalyst 134 -- Catholic Action 136 -- Catholic Church -- 99 -- 124 -- 132 -3 -- and Irish State 42 -3 -- and Irish State 135 -7 -- and Irish State 198 -- domination of 45 -- domination of 114 -- domination of 119 -- domination of 121 -- impeding modernisation 124 -5 -- impeding modernisation 129 -- impeding modernisation 137 -8 -- impeding modernisation 144 -- impeding modernisation 147 -- weakening influence 89 -- weakening influence 111 -- weakening influence 154 -- weakening influence 155 -- Catholic vocationalism 135 -6 -- Celtic mythology 180 -- Celtic Tiger -- 35 -- 197 -8 -- alternatives to 201 -- and Drumcree crisis 127 -8 -- approaches to 4 -9 -- approaches to 22.

cultural responses to 9 -15 -- historical bases for 21 -- historical bases for 29 -33 -- censorship -- 45 -- 128 -- Century Radio -- 164 -- 165 -- 169 -- Channel 4 [UK] 163 -- Chiang Yee -- 54 -- 55 -- chrono-politics -- 57 -8 -- 60 -- 65 -- Church of Ireland -- 133 -- 134 -5 -- 138 -- and commemoration of Famine 129 -30 -- and Drumcree crisis 126 -- and Drumcree crisis 128 -- and Drumcree crisis 134 -- and liberalism 127 -31 -- support for unionism 134 -5 -- cinema -- 92 -4 -- 95 -- 97 -8 -- 177 -93 -- American influence 187 -- American influence 190 -- and cultural diversity 183 -4 -- and cultural diversity 186 -7 -- and homosexuality 186 -- and national identity 177 -80 -- and national identity 183 -- and national identity 185 -7 -- and national identity 188 -9 -- and national identity 191 -2 -- and national identity 193 -- and post-modernism 191 -- and post-modernism 193 -- and revaluation of past 96 -- and revaluation of past 189 -- and social exclusion 186 -- and social exclusion 187 -8 -- and social exclusion 193 -- European co-productions 190 -- feminist 182 -3 -- First Wave 177 -- First Wave 178 -85 -- First Wave 187 -- foreign investment 192 -3 -- globalisation 177 -- globalisation 185 -9 -- globalisation 191 -2 -- stereotyping 185 -6 -- citizenship -- and democracy 76 -- and democracy 78 -- and economic agency 78 -80 -- and freedom 77 -8 -- and individuality 205 -6 -- and patriotism 73 -- and rights 76 -7 -- and rights 80 -1 -- and solidarity 71 -2 -- classical conception of 74 -6 -- educating for 69 -71 -- educating for 75 -6 -- educating for 85 -6 -- civic humanism -- 74 -- 76 -- civil society -- 28 -- 29 -- 72 -- 81 -4 -- 205 -- and solidarity 83 -4 -- and state 84 -6 -- Civil War 116 -- Clann na Talmhan 136 -- Closer You Get , The -- 186 -- 187 -- 190 -- co-operative movement -- 24.

84 -- Coen brothers 190 -- Cohen, Stanley -- 89 -- 94 -- Collins, Gerry 162 -- Collins, Michael 122 -- colonialism -- 91 -2 -- 94 -- 109 -- and resistance 111 -- and resistance 120 -2 -- domination 111 -- domination 112 -- domination 113 -- psychological legacies of 111 -13 -- psychological legacies of 114 -- psychological legacies of 117 -22 -- Comerford, Joe -- 178 -- 180 -1 -- 182 -- Commitments , The [Parker] -- 10 -- 92 -4 -- Connolly, James 25 -- Connolly, Sean 166 -- Conradh na Gaeilge [Gaelic League] 25 -- contraception 119 -- Coppola, Francis Ford 95 -- CORI [Conference of Religious in Ireland] , Justice Commission 137 -- cosmopolitanism 100 -4 -- Coulter, Carol 130 -- Country 189 -- creativity -- 23 -4 -- 121 -- credit union movement 84 -- Cronin, Michael 23 -- Crouch, Colin 48 -- Crushproof -- 187 -- 188 -- Crying Game , The [Jordan] 182 -- cultural modernity 42 -- cultural political economy -- 22 -- 33 -- culture -- and 'negative practices ' 43 -- and 'negative practices ' 52 -- and 'negative practices ' 53 -- and politics 17 -- and social criticism 43 -6 -- and social criticism 43 -6 -- and social criticism 52 -3 -- and social criticism 52 -3 -- as factor of production 47 -50 -- as means of consumption 50 -- commodification of 46 -7 -- commodification of 50 -- definition of 39 -- diversity 16 -- diversity 40 -- diversity 160 -- renaissance 160 -- Cumann na nGaedheal -- 131 -- 133 -- Curran, John 84 -- Curtin, Chris 136 -- Cushing, Richard 103 -- Dancing at Lughnasa [Friel] -- 93 -- 180 -- Davitt, Michael -- 102 -- 103 -- De Valera, Eamon -- 26 -- 28 -- 79 -- 92 -- 129 -- 133 -- 136 -- 179 -- de-differentiation 46 -- de-visionism 156 -8 -- Death on the Rock 162 -- Delanty, Gerard 40 -- democracy -- 32 -- 39 -- 76 -- 137 -- 205 -- Department of Posts and Telegraphs [P&T] 161 -- Desart, Ellen, Countess of 132.

Dillon, Michèle 40.