She Moves Through the BoomShe Moves Through the Boomby Ann Marie Hourihane \n \nWhat's happening in Ireland? Behind the triumphalist headlines of the boom, there are changes going on in the way people work, speak, eat, even the way they think that cannot be quantified by statistics nor squared with the hollow clich of the Celtic Tiger. She Moves through the Boom is a book about these intangible changes, and it paints a picture the newspapers and tourism propagandists are

one of mid-twentieth century Ireland’s foremost cultural critics

an example of the opening measures

goes to Rome

when he was sober

Although Elizabeth O’Toole is now ninety-six

street vendors and gangs of urchins

they display anew his regard for Joyce’s text in all its detail

' - Senator Martin Mansergh

philosophy

history and happenstance

plants and animals

behind-the-scenes hustling and the savage brutality of championship fights