Éireann-Tír Publishers

EIREANN-TIR PUBLISHERS Home Office Location : Limerick, Munster President/CEO: Joseph P . MacNamara Chief Products/Services : Educational and cultural software, skillsofts, databases and archives, cultural artifacts Business Profile : The MacNamaras and their ETP empire balance the interests of two Danaan-mor FamiIies, the 0'Briens and the McCarthys . The O'Briens dominate scholastic software design, while the McCarthys control the poetic/literary/historical areas of Tir culture . ETP handles all the business aspects of education and culture, including the licensing and marketing of summer schools and cultural festivals ; licensing and manufacture of books, VR-CDs, chips, and skillsofts ; and sales of cultural items such as sculpture, music, works of literature, and so on . The company's wide-ranging empire gives it a broad influence on Tir business and cultural life . Instead of formal subdivisions specializing in different areas, ETP uses expert teams to oversee individual products and services . Staffers may specialize in certain areas, but must also have a general knowledge of Tir culture . Most ETP staff regard their work as a vocation, and feel intense loyalty to the company . >>>>>[This place is so bizarre, I hardly know where to begin . Consider the products of the McCarthy Group in their Killarney forest hideout. 1 know for a fact that human hands-sorry, elven hands-didn't produce those fabulous paintings . Wild rumours hint at the mental fusion between the elven artists and the ally spirits who really execute the artwork . They say magic almost crackles off the canvases . Exhibiting unusual good taste, most international art dealers pay big money for an MG artwork . Or take the Limerick ivory towers and garrets, where they've tucked away some real schizos . Mad Flaithri O'Connor spent his last few years at the Limerick facility before his "cerebral accident" in 2051 . Get your hands on the skillwires he dreamed up, and you might go crazy . Or you might become the next Baudelaire . Sure as hell they'll turn your head inside out realtime.]««< -Tommy Mac (22 :59 :02/18-MAY-54) »»>[ETP gets into some weird marketing and development spins . For example, they pushed a big new line in 2050 of ergonomically designed, learning-Favourable environments . If you want to speed-read, scan images and extract information super-fast, or learn how to access a database in your head through intuitive data sorting, ETP can give you the software . Right along with it, they can also modulate your internal biorhythms, pump essential oils into the atmosphere, and slop the right colour paint on your walls . Plenty of people out there pay real nuyen for the full treatment . They tell me it works .]<<<<< -Poguer (01 :03:11/19-MAY-54) »»>[Just don't try getting a record deal if you have anything worthwhile to say about how life really works .]<<<<< -Siobhan Snakehead (02 :31 :00/19-MAY-54) »»>[Indeed . ETP plays a vital role in suppressing free speech ; it advises the Ministry of the Interior on the "cultural suitability" of all media forms, as well as having its own absolute monopoly in music publishing and licensing. They keep foreign stuff out, too, if they don't like it ; foreign media companies may only publish and produce their works by licensing arrangements through ETP .] <<< << -Tommy Mac (02:39 :12/19-MAY-54)