Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social change. Over the last decade, the apparently … expose the fallacies that drive the fashionable rhetoris of Tigerhood. Four of these fallacies - that Ireland has cast off … liberty are at an unprecedented level for all citizens, and that Ireland is also experiencing a period of strong cultural …

This volume shows how joining the European Union helped Ireland energize what had been a stagnant agricultural … backwater. Ireland became a prosperous globalized hub for multinational firms exporting technologically sophisticated products …