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Ireland revised: where the Celtic Tiger came from, and where it has gone.(Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000)(Book review)
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LUCK AND THE IRISH
A Brief History of Change
1970-2000
By R. F. Foster
Oxford University Press
239 pp. | $29.95
During the middle of the 1990s the Republic of Ireland went through a period of intensive economic growth, a phenomenon that came to be referred to as the Celtic Tiger. Fifteen years later, the Celtic Tiger is history. The chilling effects of the current global overdraft, decreasing tax revenues, and the recent resignation of Bertie Ahern, the prime minister who presided over the years of the Tiger's maturity, all contribute to the air that an era has ended. But there is also a sense in which the Celtic Tiger always was history. Not only ...
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