Thursday, Jun 11, 2009
From Celtic tiger to Pussy Cat
BBC: Ireland: From Boom to Bust
Olivia O'Leary tells the story of the biggest economic crisis Ireland has ever known and its search for a post-crash identity.
For the last 20 years the Irish economy was the pride of Europe. If the rush to riches was very un-Irish, Olivia tries to find out if her country is now reverting to a more familiar state of penance. William Butler Yeats described the indigenous character trait as an abiding sense of tragedy that sustained people through temporary periods of joy.
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1. japanese uncle said...
Did Irish people ever hoped for the unprecedented economic prosperity if it was inevitably to be followed by the equivalent or even bigger economic misery? Unless associated with major technological breakthrough/innovation, there cannot be an economic prosperity quite like the one we witnessed circa the millennuim. The same applied to the UK.