Contemporary redefinitions of Irishness: revisiting the past from a postnationalist perspective in Dermot Bolger's The Family on Paradise Pier. - Free Online Library

Contemporary redefinitions of Irishness: revisiting the past from a postnationalist perspective in Dermot Bolger's The Family on Paradise Pier. - Free Online Library: As many critics have argued, former national identity constructs have been put into question under the pressures of globalization globalization ?

Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation (Habermas 2001; Kearney 1997; Delanty 1999).