Post Celtic Tiger Ireland: Exploring New Cultural Spaces

Abstract

International audienceThis collective volume provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post-Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. The different cultural fields of interest studied in this book include theatre, photography, poetry, painting, and cinema, as well as commemorative spaces. These different cultural voices explore Ireland, as a country located at a crossroads in a kind of in-between space, and to examine these fields and the associated political, economic, historical and social forces present in the country. These contributions interrogate Irish society within its present context, which is deeply impregnated by movement and transition, but also strongly connected to time, to past and to memory. This collection of essays also presents the way in which these artistic works shed light on the transformations induced by both the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath. The issues of globalisation, identity, place and creativity are all dealt with. In assessing the aftermath of the post-Celtic Tiger period and its impact and influences on today’s Irish society through some of its cultural productions, our contributors also allude, incidentally, to its future