Beyond ‘Hip Hedonism’: The darker side of urban Celtic Tiger Ireland

In his 2007 essay “Cinema, city, and imaginative space: ‘Hip hedonism’ and recent Irish cinema”, McLoone outlines how the relative prosperity and optimism of the Celtic Tiger years led a cultural rebirth of Dublin, and a re-imagining of Ireland’s capital in film as a space of “sexual freedom and exploration” (213). Films like Goldfish Memory … Continue reading Beyond ‘Hip Hedonism’: The darker side of urban Celtic Tiger Ireland