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Bittorrent - US TV Docu: Ireland: Mixed Blessings

category national | history and heritage | other press author Saturday July 22, 2006 22:45author by erqwnqr

Originally aired: 2006.07.18
PBS network
US of A

"Mixed Blessings observes 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. Wide Angle demonstrates the change by visiting the city of Limerick. Once a center of violence known as "stab city" and the impoverished setting of Frank McCourt's best-selling memoir Angela's Ashes, the Limerick of today has both positive and negative ingredients of change, including foreign investment, a mini property boom, a burgeoning services industry, child care shortages, high levels of immigration from neighboring European Union states, and sprouting shopping developments."

Official Website:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/ireland/index.html

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http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77421

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