Book contents
- The New Irish Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Irish Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Legacies
- Part Two Contemporary Conditions
- Part Three Forms and Practices
- Chapter 11 Ireland’s Real Economy: Postcrash Fictions of the Celtic Tiger
- Chapter 12 Northern Irish Poetry
- Chapter 13 Essayism in Contemporary Ireland
- Chapter 14 Killers, Lovers, and Teens: Contemporary Genre Fiction
- Chapter 15 “One Hundred Years a Nation”: New Modes of Commemoration
- Chapter 16 Coda: A New Irish Studies
- Index
Chapter 11 - Ireland’s Real Economy: Postcrash Fictions of the Celtic Tiger
from Part Three - Forms and Practices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- The New Irish Studies
- Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
- The New Irish Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Legacies
- Part Two Contemporary Conditions
- Part Three Forms and Practices
- Chapter 11 Ireland’s Real Economy: Postcrash Fictions of the Celtic Tiger
- Chapter 12 Northern Irish Poetry
- Chapter 13 Essayism in Contemporary Ireland
- Chapter 14 Killers, Lovers, and Teens: Contemporary Genre Fiction
- Chapter 15 “One Hundred Years a Nation”: New Modes of Commemoration
- Chapter 16 Coda: A New Irish Studies
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines four novels published since the Irish economic crash and set in Dublin during the late boom and early bust years. Kevin Power’s Bad Day in Blackrock (2008), Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz (2011), Claire Kilroy’s The Devil I Know (2012), and Paul Murray’s The Mark and the Void (2015). Each of these novels details the effects of economic developments on the live, finances, and psyches of Irish citizens, while also exploring how a culture of accumulating indebtedness has altered the nature of contemporary Irish reality and the real ties that band society together. Reading these novels in the context of a recent turn in Irish Studies away from cultural concerns and toward a focus on Ireland’s “real economy,” I show how these novelists pay attention to the economy while not being afraid to explore world views, ideologies, desires, and feelings that serve to make it real.
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- The New Irish Studies , pp. 195 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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