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By Tom Inglis

Global Ireland bargains a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic influence on eire. some time past fifteen years, eire has reworked from a sleepy and depressed ecu backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a rustic with a booming financial system in line with wisdom and high-tech industries. now not some time past it used to be one of many poorest and most standard nations in Europe, but now it really is one of many wealthiest and such a lot cosmopolitan. utilizing a few case stories of Ireland's transition, Tom Inglis explains what this implies for standard Irish tradition and society, and gives an incisive social portrait of globalizing Ireland.

Concise, descriptive, interdisciplinary and theoretically informed, this quantity is an perfect advent to Ireland.

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