Mixed Blessings (PBS USA)

“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.

Directed  by Darragh Byrne

This programme was made in 2006 so seems quite comical now.

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