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By Sinead Moynihan

ISBN-10: 0815633106

ISBN-13: 9780815633105

With the industrial upward push of the "Celtic Tiger" within the Nineties, Irish tradition used to be deeply impacted by way of a concurrent upward push in immigration. A state tending to determine itself as a land of emigrants now observed waves of novices. Moynihan takes as her valuable query a formula by way of sociologist Steve Garner: "What occurs while different people’s diasporas converge at the place of origin of a diasporic people?" Moynihan’s method of Ireland’s altering demographics is, besides the fact that, cultural instead of sociological; she delves into fiction, drama, comedy, and cinema for the reason that 1998 for its representations of and insights into race family. She is especially attracted to how modern Irish tradition appears to be like to historical past of Irish-American and African-American race kin in order to comprehend its personal immigrant groups, arguing that "one of the main palpable tendencies in modern Irish tradition is the juxtaposition, literal or implied, of narratives of Irish emigration to the U.S. with these of immigration to Ireland." person chapters deal with of bestselling novelists Joseph O’Connor (brother of singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor) and Roddy Doyle, and the comic Des Bishop. A bankruptcy every one is dedicated to Irish/Irish American drama and cinema.

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