Celtic Revival?: The Rise, Fall, and Renewal of Global Ireland

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (August 16, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1442211091
ISBN-13: 978-1442211094
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #776,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)



Editorial Reviews

Sean Kay has done Ireland a service. This eloquent and timely narrative should be obligatory reading for those that bankrupted and betrayed my generation. This book is also about hope. The foundations for the renewal of the Irish Republic have now been written. Thank you.

'The Great Country Known as Ireland' was brought low by incompetent bankers, greedy property developers, and short-sighted politicians. Sean Kay is quite persuasive that Ireland will be back. But he also illustrates in many ways that the human cost of this financial disaster is beyond measure. Other peoples should and must learn the hard lessons imposed upon Ireland by its political elite. Read this book and avoid the fate of the Irish before you too follow in their footsteps.

A book filled, by turns, with illuminating stories and dispassionate analysis, with a sure grasp of Ireland's rapid growth and, now, its economic morass and clouded future. Celtic Revival? is both perceptive and wonderfully readable.

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Celtic Revival? explores what takes place whenever a culture loses its prosperity, its faith in federal government, and its rely on in its Church. The superb rise from the Celtic Tiger in Ireland was assumed by several to get a design for long run financial expansion for nations across the planet; its remarkable crash in 2008 resonated similarly commonly. However in spite of the magnitude with the ongoing collapse, Sean Kay exhibits that noticed in historical standpoint, the crisis is component of a considerably more substantial pattern of generations of progress and adjust. Kay attracts on the prosperous mix of analysis, interviews using a wide spectrum of Irish culture, and his very own a long time of individual knowledge to inform the tale of Ireland right now. He guides the reader via the country's main financial difficulties, political transformation, social modify, the crisis inside the Irish Catholic Church, and also the rise of gay rights and multiculturalism. He requires us by means of the streets of Derry and Belfast to comprehend the Northern Ireland peace procedure and also the challenging job of peace creating which has only just started. Eventually, we see how Irish foreign coverage has extended been a product for balancing competing interests and values. Kay concludes by highlighting Ireland's lessons for your globe and mapping an important route for twenty-first-century issues and possibilities to the coming generations in Ireland and over and above.