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标题：Irish Studies Round the World – 2008
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作者：david pierce (ed.)
期刊名称：Estudios Irlandeses : Journal of Irish Studies
电子版ISSN：1699-311X
出版年度：2009
期号：4
出版社：Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
摘要：If anyone needed evidence that the Celtic Tiger was in terminal decline, 2008 was the year that proved conclusively that we are at the end of something — though, in truth, any year in the last five or so gave good indications. Yet, equally it is the case that we are at the start of something both inside and outside Ireland. In terms of banking and the economy 2008 was the end; the new beginning might be heralded by the election of the first African American to the White House. So, while the focus of the discussion here in this journal is quite properly ‘Ireland’, we find ourselves almost immediately talking this year about the global situation. How could it be otherwise when, as I write this in January 2009, the American computer company Dell, which is among the biggest employers in Ireland, has just announced the loss of 1900 jobs at its plant in Limerick?