No Country for Old Men (Paperback)

Paddy Lyons

ISBN 10: 3039118412 / ISBN 13: 9783039118410

Published by Verlag Peter Lang, Pieterlen, 2008

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Paperback. Once a country of emigration and diaspora, in the 1990s Ireland began to attract immigration from other parts of the world: a new citizenry. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, the ratio between GDP and population placed Ireland among the wealthiest nations in the world. The Peace Agreements of the mid-1990s and the advent of power-sharing in Northern Ireland have enabled Ireland's story to change still further. No longer locked into troubles from the past, the Celtic Tiger can now leap in new directions. These shifts in culture have given Irish literature the opportunity to look afresh at its own past and, thereby, new perspectives have also opened for Irish Studies. The contributors to this volume explore these new openings; the essays examine writings from both now and the past in the new frames afforded by new times. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
• Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang, Pieterlen
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3039118412
• ISBN 13: 9783039118410
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Once a country of emigration and diaspora, in the 1990s Ireland began to attract immigration from other parts of the world: a new citizenry. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, the ratio between GDP and population placed Ireland among the wealthiest nations in the world. The Peace Agreements of the mid-1990s and the advent of power-sharing in Northern Ireland have enabled Ireland’s story to change still further. No longer locked into troubles from the past, the Celtic Tiger can now leap in new directions.
These shifts in culture have given Irish literature the opportunity to look afresh at its own past and, thereby, new perspectives have also opened for Irish Studies. The contributors to this volume explore these new openings; the essays examine writings from both now and the past in the new frames afforded by new times.

About the Author

The Editors: Paddy Lyons is convenor for Irish literature at the University of Glasgow; he also holds a personal professorship at the University of Warsaw. He has published extensively on the literature of the Restoration, as well as in Irish Studies.
Alison O’Malley-Younger is Senior Lecturer in English and Drama at the University of Sunderland. She is founder of the annual Irish Studies conferences at the University of Sunderland and Director of the North East Irish Culture Network. She has published widely on Irish theatre.