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Photo credits: Kieran Clancy/PicSure(c)
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Mixed Blessings
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at 9 P.M.
"Mixed Blessings" looks at Ireland's dramatic transformation from a poor nation of rolling green fields, farmers' pubs, and devout Catholics to an urbanized, secularized and giddily flush society. In this program, WIDE ANGLE visits the city of Limerick. Once a slum known as "stab city" and the impoverished setting of the best-selling memoir ANGELA'S ASHES, the Limerick of today has all the main ingredients of change: foreign investment, a miniature property boom, a burgeoning services industry, childcare shortages, high levels of immigration from neighboring EU states, and shopping developments popping up like daffodils in spring.
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Director Darragh Byrne has produced and directed numerous documentary projects and series on Irish social and political issues, including BACK FROM THE DEAD, THE MORRISON TAPES, THE MAN WHO LOST IRELAND, BORDERLANDS, SWEET DREAMS, and THE LEAVING. He produces frequently for RTE, Ireland's major broadcaster, and was a Producer/Director for the current affairs series PRIME TIME. In 1993 he won the European Media Project's Creative Documentary award for JFK IN THE ISLAND OF DREAMS.
Over the past ten years producer Bláithín Ní Chatháin produced, directed, and researched documentary and arts programming for RTE, Irish-language channel TG4, and national radio station Lyric FM, including an award-winning project on Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh. Her most recent projects have focused on cultural change and the Celtic Tiger phenomenon.
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