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Ireland Now: Tales of Change from the Global Island
William Flanagan
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Description for Ireland Now: Tales of Change from the Global Island
paperback. Largely as a result of the country's expanding economy, Ireland has been transformed from one of the poorest to one of the richest countries in the European Union. This is a guide to understanding how Ireland and the Irish people have changed over the years. It also examines the nature of Irish character and the fusion of tradition and change. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB; JFC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 463.
Ireland Now is an accessible guide to understanding how Ireland and the Irish people have changed during the past fifteen years. Largely as a result of the country's rapidly expanding economy, Ireland has been transformed from one of the poorest to one of the richest countries in the European Union. William Flanagan uses personal, first-hand stories from a wide range of Irish citizens, including the elderly, farmers, people in small towns and rural areas, and new immigrants, to illustrate how various segments of the population are coping with a shifting social landscape.
Flanagan skillfully weaves his stories of real people ... Read moretogether to reflect themes of promise and loss attached to economic upheaval, the struggle to maintain traditional ways in the face of new social and moral orders, the effort to adapt to a country with an enhanced place in the world economy, and the challenge of remaining at home as the meaning of home becomes forever changed.
Based on years of Flanagan's personal experience and careful research in Ireland, this important book examines the nature of Irish character and the fusion of tradition and change. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in Ireland and Irish identity.
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University of Notre Dame Press
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
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About William Flanagan
William Flanagan is professor of sociology at Coe College. He is the author of Urban Sociology: Images and Structure and Contemporary Urban Sociology.
Reviews for Ireland Now: Tales of Change from the Global Island
“This is an accessible guide explaining how Ireland and the Irish people have changed during the past fifteen years. Largely a result of the country’s rapidly expanding economy, Ireland has transformed from one of the poorest to one of the richest countries in the EU. The author uses personal, first hand stories from a wide range of Irish citizens, including ... Read morethe elderly, farmers, people in small towns and rural areas, and recent immigrants to show how various segments of the population are coping with the shifting social landscape.” —Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment, 2007 “An American of Irish descent, Flanagan has traveled often to Ireland studying and working since the 1970s and became intrigued with the stories people told about how their lives were changing. From the late 1990s, he began writing the stories down, and here delivers a selection of views on Ireland today by Irish people living there.” —Reference-Research Book News “William Flanagan focuses on the past decade and a half, which have seen such profound economic, religious, and cultural changes in Ireland. Perhaps most interesting about Ireland Now is that it combines analysis of broad current events with interviews with regular Irish people whose lives have been upended in recent years—for better or worse.” —Irish America “William Flanagan has provided us with a terrific introduction to contemporary Ireland, its peoples, and its complex identities. At the heart of this highly original interdisciplinary study is the nuanced Irish voice speaking in multiple ways, and at various registers, of everyday life in Global Ireland.” —Eamonn Wall, Jefferson Smurfit Professor of Irish Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis “This book is valuable because it digs beneath the endlessly repeated litany of the rapid changes in modern Ireland, such as ‘globalization,’ ‘the Celtic Tiger,’ ‘Fourth highest per capita GDP in the world,’ ‘church in decline,’ ‘educated young people,’ and the list goes on. Ireland Now lays out the changing Ireland framework and the goal of finding how it plays out in the everyday life of the people in the book. Readers in sociology, cultural anthropology, and political science will find or recognize the pressures on people located in a kaleidoscopically changing environment.” —Richard B. Finnegan, Stonehill College Show Less
