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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Celtic Tiger"”.
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The Representation of Celtic Tiger Irish Masculinity in Hollywood Cinema: 1994-2008
… of three Irish actors in the U.S. during the Celtic Tiger period— Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers—this thesis explores the representation of Celtic Tiger Irish masculinity in Hollywood cinema. It considers the “Celtic Tiger” as an economic phenomenon that had cultural …
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Erotic Enterprises: An Ethnography of Risk and Opportunity for Female Sex Workers in Celtic Tiger Ireland.
… of female sexual labour at the height of the Celtic Tiger, when sex like other consumables saw an insatiable increase in demand. Like other industries, the sex industry has relatively privileged and exploitative positions for its workers, and like other service industries, it has been …
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Ireland's industrial policy in an integrated global economy : the case of the Celtic Tiger in the 1990s
The research of this paper focuses on Ireland's economic development in the 1990s. The central question of this paper is to demonstrate how the Irish government developed an industrial strategy that would create and attract a large amount of Foreign Direct Investment. (FDI), Two critical concepts …
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“We've All To Grow Old”: Representations of Agingas Reflections of Cultural Change on the Celtic Tiger Irish Stage
… and cultural change known as the “Celtic Tiger.” This study argues that the way that aging and senescence—defined jointly as the process of aging and as the state of being “aged”—are represented on stage reveals a broader cultural negotiation of …
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Everyday Life, Debt and Death in North Dublin
… in the Priory Hall apartment complex during the Celtic Tiger, only to find themselves a few short years later dispossessed and homeless yet still paying mortgages. Priory Hall is now one of the key spaces of representation for the follies of the Celtic Tiger era and subsequent economic collapse; …
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The sins of the father: a study of patrilineality in Colm Toibins' The Heather Blazing and Dermot Bolger's The Valparaiso Voyage
… and the uneven economic prosperity of the Celtic Tiger may have reinforced andlor challenged male power and privilege in each text. To address these issues my thesis will focus upon the portrayals of 'the father' - in his theistic, familial and political forms - whilst contextualising each …
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Recent Change in Ireland's Rural Peripherary: A Case Study of Gweedore.
… growth in Ireland, commonly referred to as The Celtic Tiger, has led to major changes within the State. Social and economic inequalities have increased significantly, with strong discrepancies emerging between the urban and rural environments. This thesis investigates the type, and level of …
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Ghostly Faces and Liminal Spaces: Landscape, Gender, and Identity in the Plays of Marina Carr
… a way of expressing Ireland's complicated post-Celtic Tiger identity. I address Carr's plays chronologically in an attempt to trace her development of her use of liminality, which begins primarily with gender in Low in the Dark and expands to include landscape and identity through the Midlands …
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A sociological analysis o f the recent rise in assaults on young men in Irish society.
… Alcohol consumption among young people; 4) The Celtic Tiger and its effect on Irish society; 5) Youth Violence and the ‘Crisis of Masculinity’ and 6) The role of the Media in heightening public fear. I have studied this literature in order to gain a better understanding of my hypothesis and sub …
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The Irish revolutionary period as a rite of passage: things hidden since the foundation of the state
… the recent liminal period of the so-called 'Celtic Tiger'. The key theoretical concepts are: 'liminality', elaborated from the form of a 'rite of passage'; the crucial role of 'masters of ceremonies' (van Gennep (1960), Turner (1967), Szakolczai (2000), Horvath (2008), Thomassen (2008)); …
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Continuity between the Primary School and the Junior Cycle of Post-Primary A School-Based Study
… evident than in Ireland. Much of the so-called ‘Celtic Tiger’ can be attributed to the large amounts of funding spent on teaching and training of our unemployed during the ‘80’s, through government funding and European Social Fund grants from the EU (Benner & Lenzen, 1995). Within this …
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Outfacing history: the artistic influences of W. B. Yeats and others on Seamus Heaney's Noughties poetry
… Light, the Northern Irish Peace Process, and the Celtic Tiger economic boom in the Republic of Ireland, for District and Circle, 9/11 and the War on Terror are the milieux that Heaney is responding to, and in Human Chain, personal mortality is the most immediate concern for the aging Heaney. In …
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Participation by place-based community organisations in local development: case studies from East Cork
… and social change precipitated by the ‘Celtic Tiger’.This thesis examines the interaction between community organisations, state institutions and other actors in development processes in East Cork. It focuses upon place-based community organisations, who seek to represent the interests …
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The Emergence Of Irish Access Policy And Practice In The 1990s
… membership of the EU; equity awareness, the 'Celtic Tiger' and an increased demand by adults for education are the forces driving Access in Ireland. Analysis of representations by one group, and reinforced by the survey of Access students show that students represent the least source of …
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Land use and society during the Middle Bronze Age in South-East Ireland: an integrated examination of the character, landscape setting and chronology of the archaeological and paleoenvironmental record from c.1600–1150 BC
… Bronze Age changed dramatically during the ‘Celtic Tiger’, a boom period of infrastructural development from 1995 to 2007. Extensive excavation of hitherto un-surveyed landscapes as part of large-scale linear development schemes led to the discovery of hundreds of archaeological features …
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Lost in Transition: How Ireland and Three Other Small Open Economies Responded to Europeanisation 1987-2013
… to resolving the puzzling question of why its ‘Celtic Tiger’ phase of development proved to be unsustainable. The research also identifies the areas where the different Varieties of Capitalism converge and diverge. The findings are that the ‘Democratic Corporatism’ which Katzenstein identified …
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The traveller
… of the Famine (1846). Since the advent of the Celtic Tiger (1994), and the wealth and prosperity it brought, the new traveller is the immigrant or refugee who comes to Ireland because of the opportunities it offers. I also believe that the definition can be broadened to the Irish people …