@PHDTHESIS{ 2020:1497274450,
 	title = {"We had dreams and songs to sing": a portrait of the outcasted from the Celtic Tiger riches in the Irish short story},
 	year = {2020},
 	url = "http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/9454",
 	abstract = "Throughout its history, Ireland has used literature to narrate its people and its land. From the earliest days, with oral narratives, to modernity, with the subversion of norms by names that entered the world canon, Irish literary production has been responsible for registering its types, challenges and achievements and, through fictional productions, reflecting the ideal of a nation. The Irish short story, highlighted in the country's literary production, has been privileged for better reflecting all the social upheavals of an Ireland marked by intense transformations and, in contemporary times, once more it is configured as an ideal genre to echo an environment that is found again in metamorphosis. The research carried out for this doctoral thesis highlights the relationship between the short story and the representation of the identities involved in situations of vulnerability such as homelessness, drug consumption and trafficking, and immigration. It is proposed that these types were, in some way, relegated to the margins and suffered the consequences of a social inequality even more accentuated by the Celtic Tiger period, in which Irish identity was especially associated with success and wealth. From the historical review of the Irish short story and the focus on contemporary socio-political criticisms of names like Fintan O'Toole, Brendan Bartley and Rob Kitchin, fifteen short stories are analyzed to portray the multiple traits that contribute to the composition of Irish identity, which it is neither fixed nor uniform, but a living reflection of a country and its people, largely impacted by political and social changes.",
 	publisher = {Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul},
 	scholl = {Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras},
 	note = {Escola de Humanidades}
}