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This book charts the history of Ireland's Jewish community at a time of rapid growth and cultural, political and social transition, from British rule to Irish independence, exploring the relationship between Jews, Irish society and Irish Jewish communal tradition.

"This landmark collection marks the publication of the100th book in the Reimagining Ireland series. It attempts to provide a 'forward look' (as opposed to what Frank O'Connor once referred to as the 'backward look') at what Irish Studies might look like in the third millennium. With a Foreword by Declan Kiberd, it also contains essays by several other leading Irish Studies expertson (among other areas) literature and critical theory, sport, the Irish language, food and beverage studies, cinema, women's writing, Brexit, religion, Northern Ireland, the legacy of the Great Famine, Ireland in the French imagination, archival research, musicology, and Irish Studies in North America. The book is a tribute to Irish Studies' foundational commitment to revealing and renewing Irishness within and beyond the national space"--

Avant-propos/Preface / Stéphane Crouzat, French Ambassador to Ireland -- Introduction: Patrimoine/cultural heritage in France and Ireland / Eamon Maher and Eugene O'Brien -- Metanoia and reflexive thinking : towards a deconstruction of patrimoine/cultural heritage / Eugene O'Brien -- Debt as inheritance / Eóin Flannery -- "We did not choose this patrimony" : Irish musical inheritances since independence / Harry White -- "Protestant strangers and others" : re-imagining the contribution of French Huguenots and their descendants to Ireland's ancient "patrimoine" / Tony Kiely -- The reification of Sceilg Mhichíl / Catherine Maignant -- Faith-based tourism in Ireland and France / Déborah Vandewoude -- Irish cultural heritage through the prism of Guinness's ads in the 1980s / Patricia Medcalf -- A traditional Irish family butcher shop: "harnessing the power of patrimoine" / Brian Murphy -- "Butter them up" : when marketing meets heritage : the case of Irish butter in Germany / Julien Guillaumond -- "Enfants d'ici, parents d'ailleurs" / Maguy Pernot-Deschamps -- George Moore : a case of Dúchas/patrimoine in flux? / Mary Pierse -- "I don't think I could have made a decent living without the French" : an analysis of reviews of Irish literature in Le Monde, 1950-2017 / Grace Neville.

Introduction -- Eamon Maher and Eugene O'Brien Part I: Tracing change and setting the context 1. 'The times they are a changin'': Tracing the transformation of Irish Catholicism through the eyes of a journalist -- Patsy McGarry 2. Revisiting the faith of our fathers ... and reimagining its relevance in the context of twenty-first-century Ireland -- Louise Fuller 3. Dethroning Irish Catholicism: Church, State and modernity in contemporary Ireland -- David Carroll Cochran 4. Refracted visions: Street photography, humanism and the loss of innocence -- Justin Carville 5. Contemporary Irish Catholicism: A time of hope! -- Vincent Twomey Part II: Going against the tide 6. The poetry of accumulation: Irish-American fables of resistance -- Eamonn Wall 7. Prophetic voices or complicit functionaries? Irish priests and the unravelling of a culture -- Eamon Maher 8. Tony Flannery: A witness in an age of witnesses -- Catherine Maignant 9. 'Belief shifts': Ireland's referendum and the journey from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft -- Eugene O'Brien Part III: Challenges in the here and now 10. Faith, hope and clarity? A new church for the unhoused -- Michael Cronin 11. The people in the pews: Silent and betrayed -- Patricia Casey 12. Irreconcilable differences? The fraught relationship between women and the Catholic Church in Ireland -- Sharon Tighe-Mooney 13. The Catholic twilight -- Joe Cleary Index.

This text examines the phenomenon of the rise and fall of the Irish Celtic Tiger from a cultural perspective. It looks at Ireland's regression from prosperity to austerity in terms of a society as opposed to just an economy. Using literary and cultural theory, it looks at how this period was influenced by, and in its turn influenced, areas such as religion, popular culture, politics, literature, photography, gastronomy, music, theatre, poetry and film. It seeks to provide some answers as to what exactly happened to Irish society in the past few decades of boom and bust