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44 minutes | RealPlayer and Windows Media formats |
"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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Briefing
Read about the lifestyles of the "Full-On" nation in this excerpt from the book, THE POPE'S CHILDREN.
Handbook
Learn about the past, present and future of North-South economic ties.
Photo Essay
Explore the different facets of Ireland's transformation from a poor nation of devout Catholics to an urbanized, secularized society.
Filmmaker Notes
Go behind the scenes with the program creators.
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