ABSTRACT
If the financial crisis of 2008 struck a blow to global creative city endeavors of the nineties and early noughties, it had the opposite impact on the Republic of Ireland and its relationship with the creativity paradigm. While Celtic Tiger Ireland had little time for creativity as a catalyst for economic and urban development, Downturn Ireland enticed, promoted and congratulated the creatives who occupied and developed the then vacant properties of fallen developers. Suddenly, creativity was everyone's Noah's Ark, and local institutions started to envisage how it could be put afloat in the grander scheme of urban and economic regeneration.
