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Recycling Irish popular culture / Guy Beiner -- "We were so different!" / Rebecca S. Miller -- Seán Burk, lion of Lahinch / Jim Shanahan -- Corner boys in small town Ireland, 1922-1970 / Leo Keohane -- Rethinking rural/urban / Lauren Weintraub Stoebel -- The riddle of Ravenhill / Vic Rigby and Liam O'Callaghan -- Locating the centre / Verena Commins -- Life on-air / Finola Doyle O'Neill -- Neither white nor free / Margaret Brehony

I. The ancient world -- II. Mutability, melancholy and quest : the Renaissance -- III. Social death -- IV. Modernity and philosophy : the authenticity of nothingness -- V. The desire not to be : late metaphysics and psychoanalysis -- VI. Renouncing death -- VII. The aesthetics of energy -- VIII. Death and the homoerotic.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction-"Fractured Movement": Transnationalism, Regionality, and Diaspora in Contemporary Irish Popular Culture -- Neoliberal Ireland: Mapping the Contemporary Conjuncture North and South -- Conjunctural Flash Points -- Transnationalism, Regionality and Diaspora: Utilizing Key Terms -- Methodology, Choice of Texts and Chapter Overview -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Star Leverage, Local Matters, and Transnational Media: Chris O'Dowd, Moone Boy and Puffin Rock -- Shifting Masculinities in Twenty-First Century Stardom: O'Dowd's Emergence and the Decline of Celtic Tiger Masculinities -- Everyman Appeal, Demotic Corporeality, and Irish Performativity -- Bridesmaids: Breakthrough Performance and the Ambivalence of Irishness -- Accented Performance: O'Dowd's Irishness as Aural Signifier and Diasporic Index -- Transnationalism, Channel Identity and the Irish Sitcom -- Regionalism and Nostalgia in the Irish Sitcom: Moone Boy -- Economic Woes, County Pride and the 'Returning Migrant' -- Renegotiating the West Onscreen: Reflective Nostalgia, Region and the Changing Face of Ireland -- Irish Animation, FDI and Regional Development -- Puffin Rock: Local and International Funding Strategies and Global Appeal10 -- Accent and Visual Style in Puffin Rock -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Derry Girls and Cork Boys: Second Cities, Regional Identities and (Trans)National Tensions in the Contemporary Irish Sitcom -- Regional Comedic Voices -- (Trans)National Hierarchies and the City -- Historical Conditions and "Second City Affect" in Cork and Derry -- Spatialized Inequality and Youthful Mobility in the Young Offenders -- Melodrama, Bromance and the Recuperation of the Lad in the Young Offenders -- Future Girls and Present-Day Troubles: Derry Girls and "The Real Derry Girls".

Drawing on diverse cultural forms, and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, Nation States maps the contested cultural terrain of Irish nationalism from the Act of Union of 1800 to the present. In looking at Irish nationalism as a site of struggle, Mays examines both the myriad ways in which the nation fashions itself as the a priori ground of identity, and those processes through which nationalism engenders an ostensibly unique national identity corresponding to one and only one nation-state, the place where we always have been, and can only ever be, Oat home.O

The decision to abandon protectionism and move to a more open economy is considered one of the most important developments in modern Irish economic history. Drawing on recent work in the field of international political economy, we propose a new explanation for this important policy change based on interest groups' demands. More specifically, we argue that Irish agriculture's needs were highly influential in the policy decisions that were taken in the 1950s. Without the threat of exclusion from the emerging process of European integration and the accompanying loss of traditional markets for agricultural exports, protectionism would have persisted for some time. But we also suggest that the absence of significant objection from industry—supposedly the potentially adversely affected group, as the beneficiary of protection—reflects the changing balance between exporter and protectionist interests in that sector.

Eggs have played an important role in the Irish culture. For centuries, eggs have done so much more than simply nourish the body; they have soaked up mythological and folk belief, and have been used to celebrate certain religious festivals. They were also an early form of income or means of barter, often contributing far more to the family income than the commonly used term 'pin money' suggests. Initiatives sponsored by successive governments and the rise in the co-operative movement led to improvements in the poultry and egg industry from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1960s when intensive production in 'battery farms' commenced. Today's hybrid hens can lay up to 330 eggs a year on a daily feed of 120g. Enriched feed produces value added eggs rich in Omega 3 and other nutrients. This paper traces the development of egg production and consumption in Ireland. It includes mythology and folklore, the type of eggs and the breed of hens used, the government schemes which influenced the Irish egg economy, and gives examples of how eggs were consumed in the different strata of Irish society.

This book examines the organisational culture of the Irish police service, speaking in particular to those interested in policing organisations and organisational culture. It is set against a backdrop of considerations such as community policing, police accountability, the management of change in Irish policing, and where the Irish police situates itself in relation to police organisations internationally. An Garda Siochana, the national police service of the Republic of Ireland, has a stated community policing style which focuses on an interactive relationship with the community and results in a largely unarmed policing organisation which makes it different to most police organisations. Yet, the author argues that the organisational culture has prevented them from embodying community policing across the organisation. Exploring the organisations historical context and how they are trained, this book draws on new research and data spanning 30 years including tribunals and reports to examine the organisational culture over time including potential misconduct, blame culture, and resistance to change within the organisation, in order to provide a more thorough understanding of a relatively unknown policing organisation. Courtney Marsh is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law at Ghent University, Belgium. Her main area of research is police organisational culture which has extended into the areas of gender and policing and cross-cultural studies in policing. Prior to this, she used her secondary expertise in Engaged Learning as a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. .