Ireland's dramatic transformation from a land of rolling green fields, farmers' pubs and devout Catholics to an urbanized, secularized and giddily flush society.

This documentary 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 visits the city of Limerick. Once a center of violence 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 mini-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.