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Article: Celtic Tiger Ireland: free and easy?(irish writing today)(portrayal of Ireland in Anne Haverty's novel The Free and Easy)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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THE IRELAND of Anne Haverty's novel The Free and Easy (Chatto & Windus, 2006) is not the Ireland of green fields and country quaintness, or the Ireland of poverty and famine--images often called to mind when people think of Ireland. The Free and Easy depicts an urban Ireland of economic prosperity, an Ireland of cell phones, computers, and expensive cars, an Ireland that has taken its place not only alongside the nations of Europe but in the global economy. It is, in short, the Ireland of the Celtic Tiger, but it is also an Ireland trying to find its identity, to strike a balance between the past and present. Described by Myles Dungan ...