Celtic Tiger

alternative Celtic tiger

1. economicsThe economy of the Republic of Ireland from the mid-1990s to the late-2000s, a period of rapid real economic growth fuelled by foreign direct investment.

   Ireland shook off its reliance on the UK and became a Celtic tiger. While it might be a pity – and a sad comment on England – Scotland could do the same.

   2024 February 2, Simon Jenkins, “Northern Ireland will leave the union, and Scotland could too. True devolution is the only way to save it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   Even aside from the emergence of the “Celtic Tiger,” were the foundations of the Irish manifestation of the global financial crisis laid by deeper structural issues in the Irish economy […] and in Irish political culture[…]?

   2017, John Gibney, “Where Historians Disagree: An Epilogue”, in A Short History of Ireland, 1500–2000, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN

1. Alternative letter-case form of Celtic Tiger

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   “Meet me behind the mall,” Taylor Swift once sang, with all of the American mystique that carries, but for Irish people, there is something distinctly soulless about an out-of-town shopping precinct in the post-recession era. It represents the hubris and corruption of the Celtic tiger bubble, and the struggles faced by Irish people in the years since it burst

   2025 August 25, Emer McHugh, “The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza”, in The Guardian, →ISSN