Peadar Kirby, 

BA, BD, H.Dip in Ed., PhD

Professor of International Politics and Public Policy, 

Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick

Director,

Institute for the Study of Knowldge in Society (ISKS)

Contact details:
Department of Politics & Public Administration
University of Limerick
Ollscoil Luimnigh
Limerick

Office Tel: 353-61-233757
Dept Tel: 353-61-202633

E-mail: Peadar.Kirby @ul.ie

 

 

Text of 'A Better Ireland is Possible'

Inaugural lecture at UL, Feb. 25th 2008: 'The Role of the Social Sciences in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland'  

Associate Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Studies, University of London

Winner: President’s Research Award for the Humanities and Social Sciences, DCU, 2003

Lecturing

Research

Teaching at UL

  • ‘The Politics and Political Economy of Developing Countries’ on the MA in Peace and Development Studies (with Prof. Tom Lodge)
  • ‘Global Transformation and Exclusion’ on the MA in International Studies (with Dr Owen Worth)
  • ‘Issues in International Public Policy’, an elective course for MA students
  • Ireland and Globalisation’, an elective course for MA students (from 2008)
  • ‘Power, Politics and Social Change in Latin America ’, an elective for fourth year undergraduate students (from 2008)

 

Teaching (in DCU 2002-07):

  • ‘Development: Theory and Practice’, on the MA in International Relations
  • ‘The Political Economy of Globalisation and Development’, on the MA in Globalisation
  • ‘Latin America in the World Order’, on the MA in International Relations, the MA in Globalisation and the MA in International Security and Conflict Studies.
  • ‘Human Security and Development’, on the MA in International Relations, the MA in Globalisation and the MA in International Security and Conflict Studies.
  • ‘Understanding the Global System’, on the BA in International Relations.


Visiting professorships:

  • Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Science Po), Paris, 2002-03
  • Instituto de Ciencia Política, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, 2001-02
  • Ben Gurion University, Israel, August 2003, July 2005
  • University of Costa Rica, San José, 2006


Recent lectures:

  • December 2009: with Mary Murphy: 'The Cosy Consensus of Irish Policy Making: Identifying its Constitutive Features' to the second annual conference of the Irish Social Sciences Platform, NUI Galway, December 2nd. 

  • November 2009: Lecture entitled ‘Social Policy and Justice in a Globalised World’ at Waterford Institute of Technology, November 23rd.

  • November 2009: Lecture entitled ‘Diáspora y Desarrollo: El caso de Irlanda’ to a workshop on Estado Actual y Perspectives de las Politicas de Migracion en el Mercosur’ in Montevideo, November 13th .

  • November 2009: Respondent to paper on ‘Estrategia Uruguay III Siglo’ given by Dr Gustavo Bittencourt of the Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto, Presidencia de la Republica, to the Red de Desarrollo, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, November 12th .

  • November 2009: Lecture entitled ‘Interrogando el modelo irlandés de desarrollo: milagro o engaño?’ to students of a module on Estado, Desarrollo y Politicas Publicas, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, November 11th .

  • November 2009: Paper on ‘Lessons from the Irish Collapse: Taking an International Political Economy Approach’, to the 2009 annual conference of the International Affairs Committee of the Royal Irish Academy on ‘International Politics and the Global Economic Crisis’, Dublin, November 5th.

  • October 2009: Paper on ‘Ireland’s Experience in Social Policy Dialogue’ to the Arab Forum on Social Policy, UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Beirut, October 28th
  • July 2009: 'A World of Economic Alternatives: Learning from the 'new left' in Latin America', talk to the Tom Johnson Summer School, Irish Labour Party, Galway, July 4th.
  • June 2009: 'The Collapse of the Celtic Tiger: Probing the Weaknesses of the Irish Model', and 'The Republic of Ireland: Myth or Reality?'; two lectures to visiting US academics, DCU, June 30th. 
  • June 2009: 'The Challenge of Teaching Politics in a Fast-Changing Global Order', lecture to inaugural meeting of Teaching and Learning Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI), Department of Government, UCC, June 10th.
  • May 2009: 'Reflections on the Crisis: Confronting the Weaknesses of the Irish Model', lecture at the Waterford Institute of Technology, May 28th. 
  • May 2009: 'The Collapse of the Celtic Tiger: Probing the Weaknesses of Ireland's Development Model', to seminar on 'The Status of Small States in the International Community', University of Iceland, Reykjavik, May 14th.
  • May 2009: '"Sanding Aside in the National Interest': The self-marginalisation of the left in Irish politics" to the sixth Ralahine Utopian Studies workshop, University of Limerick, May 1st.
  • April 2009: 'From Vulnerability to Resilience', talk to 'Rethinking the Country' at Tipperary Institute, Thurles, April 27th.
  • April 2009: 'Prospects for Green New Deal in Irish Politics', talk to 'A Green New Deal: Ireland in Transition', Convergence Festival, Cultivate Centre, Dublin, April 24th.
  • April 2009: 'Models of State and Globalisation: Lessons from Irish debates', paper to Workshop 17 at European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Joint Sessions, Lisbon, April 14th to 19th.
  • April 2009: 'Reflections on the Crisis: Confronting the Weaknesses of the Irish Model', research seminar to postgraduate staff and students, NUI Maynooth, April 6th.
  • March 2009: 'Research Imperatives for Emerging Economies', address to Unesco International Experts' Workshop on 'Research in Diverse Social Contexts: Tensions, Dynamics and Challenges', Unesco, Paris, March 19th to 21st. 
  • March 2009: 'Possibilities for Green politics in the present political conjuncture in the Republic of Ireland', talk to workshop on 'The Politics of the Transition to Sustainability: Greening Politics, Culture and the Economy', Queen's University, Belfast, March 11th.
  • March 2009: 'A Better Ireland is Possible', talk to Convention of the Green Party, Wexford, March 7th.
  • February 2009: 'Globalisation and Identity: Reflections from the Irish Experience', fifth Seamus Heaney lecture 2008-09, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, Feb 23rd. The lecture can be listened to on the Seamus Heaney lecture website.
  • February 2009: 'Globalisation and Vulnerability: What is happening to society?', public talk organised by Ethical Development Action at the Imperial Hotel, Cork.
  • February 2009: 'A Better Ireland is Possible', guest lecture at the Department of Applied Social Studies, UCC.
  • February 2009: 'Politics of Environmental Change: Challenges, Opportunities, Prospects' to Sustainable Clonakilty.
  • January 2009: 'Globalisation and the State: What lessons does the 'new left' in Latin America have to offer?', lecture at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. 

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Research interests:

  • globalisation: meaning, political economy, culture, social impact

  • development theory and practice

  • development in the Republic of Ireland

  • Latin America : social, political and economic development

  • social movements and the potential for agency

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Recent publications:

  • 2010: 'Vulnerability and Globalization: The Social Impact of Globalization', in Bryan S. Turner, ed.: Handbook of Globalization Studies, Routledge, pp. 113-34..

  • 2009: The Legacy of Ireland's Economic Expansion: Geographies of the Celtic Tiger, co-edited with Pádraig Carmody, Routledge.

  • 2009: Transforming Ireland: Challenges, Critiques, Resources, co-edited with Debbie Ging and Michael Cronin, Manchester University Press..

  • 2009: with Pádraig Carmody: 'Moving Beyond the Legacies of the Celtic Tiger', IIIS Discussion Paper No. 300, Institute for Interrntional Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, October 2009, available at www.tcd.ie/iiis/documents/discussion/pdfs/iiisdp300.pdf

  • 2009: 'Globalisation, Vulnerability and the Return to Religion: Reflections from the Irish Experience', in Eamon Maher, ed.: Cultural Perspectives on Globalisation and Ireland, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 93-111.

  • 2009: 'How the Celtic Tiger tames Irish dissent', in Mark Perryman, ed.: Breaking Up Britain: Four Nations after a Union, Lawrence & Wishart, 2009, pp 207-221.

  • 2009: 'Irlanda: Il collasso della "tigre celtica"', in il Mulino, Vol. LVIII, No. 442, 2/09, pp 254-262. English-language version.

  • Power, Dissent and Democracy: Civil Society and the State in Ireland, co-edited with Deiric Ó Broin, A&A Farmar

  • 2009: (with Pádraig Carmody): 'Introduction: Geographies of the Celtic Tiger', Special Edition of Irish Geography on 'Geographies of the Celtic Tiger', co-edited by Pádraig Carmody and Peadar Kirby as guest editor, Vol. 42, No. 1, March 2009, pp 1-5. 

  • 2009: 'The Competition State - Lessons from Ireland', Limerick Papers in Politics and Public Administration, No. 1, 2009.

  • 2009: ‘Neo-structuralism and reforming the Latin American state: Lessons from the Irish case',  in Economy and Society, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009, pp 132-153.

  • 2008: Explaining Ireland's Development: Economic Growth with Weakening Welfare, Social Policy and Development Paper No. 36, UNRISD, Geneva, 2008.

  • 2008: A Better Ireland is Possible: The Challenge of Voicing an Alternative Vison for Ireland, with Mary Murphy, Community Platform, Dec 2008.

  • 2008: Contesting the State: Lessons from the Irish Case,, co-edited with Maura Adshead and Michelle Millar, Manchester University Press.

  • 2008: Electronic version of country paper on Ireland for project of UN Research Institute on Social Development (UNRISD) on policy regimes and poverty reduction. Available at: http: www.unrisd.org

  • 2008: ‘The best of times or besting the critics? The ESRI on the social impact of the Celtic Tiger’ in Administration, Vol 55, No 3, 2008, pp. 171-190.

  • 2008: ‘A Question of Compatability: The Democratic Project and Neoliberal Globalization’, in Eoin G. Cassidy, ed.: Community, Constitution, Ethos: Democratic Values and Citizenship in the Face of Globalization, Otior Press, 2008, pp. 19-30.

  • 2008: ‘The Irish Republic : A project still to be completed’ in Finbar Cullen, ed.: The 1916 Rising: Then and Now, The Ireland Institute, Dublin , pp. 75-88.

  • 2008: ‘The Catholic Church in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland’, in John Littleton and Eamon Maher, eds: Contemporary Catholicism in Ireland: A Critical Appraisal, The Columba Press, Dublin, pp. 25-42.

 

Forthcoming publications:

  • with Mary Murphy: 'Globalisation and Models of State: Debates and Evidence from Ireland', forthcoming in New Political Economy, 2010

  • The Celtic Tiger in Collapse: Explaining the Weaknesses of the Irish Model, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

  • 'Globalisation and Vulnerability: Tracing its Impacts in Ireland', in Paul Burgess and Peter Herrmann, eds: Highways, Crossroads and Cul de sacs: Journeys into Irish Youth and Community Work, Bremen: Europaischer Hochschul Verlag, 2010, pp. 11-40. 

  • 'The Competition State: Irish Lessons', in Michael Böss, ed.: The Nation State in Transformation: Economic Globalisation, Institutional Mediation and Poltiical Values, Aarhus University Press, 2010, pp. 191-212.