Research & Publications

Professor Peadar Kirby gave his Inaugural Lecture titled "The Social Sciences in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland" on Monday 25th February at 17h45 at CSG01, Computer Science Building. Please see attached for Lecture Inaugural Lecture

Peadar Kirby is Professor of International Politics and Public Policy. Until September 2007 he was co-director of the Centre for International Studies and associate professor in the School of Law and Government, both at Dublin City University. A former journalist with The Irish Times, he is a graduate in History and Politics from UCD and did his PhD in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics under the supervision of Professor Fred Halliday. He has published extensively on globalisation and development, both in theoretical terms and in relation to Ireland and to Latin America.

2003 Introduction to Latin America: Twenty-first Century Challenges, Sage, Publications.

2002 Celtic Tiger in Distress: Growth with Inequality in Ireland in the IPE series published by Palgrave in the UK and the US.

1997 Poverty Amid Plenty: World and Irish Development Reconsidered, Trócaire and Gill & Macmillan.

Refereed journal articles

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.

2007, with Mary Murphy: ‘Ireland as a “Competition State”’, IPEG Papers in Global Political Economy, No 28, May 2007, available at http://www.bisa.ac.uk/groups/ipeg/ipegpapers.htm

2006 ‘Theorising globalisation’s social impact: Proposing the concept of vulnerability’ in Review of International Political Economy, Vol 13, No 4, Oct 2006, pp 632-655.

2006 ‘Preventing the Future or Distorting the Past? Tom Garvin on Mancur Olson and the Causes of Ireland’s Underdevelopment’ in Administration, late 2006.

2005 ‘In the Wake of the Tiger: Mapping Anew the Social Terrain’ in The Irish Review, No 33, spring 2005, pp 40-50.

2004 ‘Globalization, Vulnerability and the Role of the State: Lessons for Ireland’, in Administration, Vol 52, No 4, pp 49-68.

2004 ‘Globalization, the Celtic Tiger and Social Outcomes: Is Ireland a model or a mirage?’, in Globalizations, Vol 1, No 2, pp 205-222.

2004 ‘Development Theory and the Celtic Tiger’, in The European Journal of Development Research, Vol 16, No 2, pp 301-328.

2002 ‘The World Bank or Polanyi: Markets, Poverty and Social Well-being in Latin America’ in New Political Economy, Vol 7, No 2, pp 199-219.

2001 ‘Tackling Global Inequality: Latin America and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism’ in Irish Studies in International Affairs, Vol 12, pp 7-19.

2000 ‘The Social Impact of Economic Liberalisation: Evidence from Latin America’ in Development Review, pp 49-80.

1996 ‘The Chilean Economic Miracle: A Model for Latin America?’ in Development Review, pp 65-85.

1991 ‘Beyond ‘Old Wars’ and Cold Wars: Political Change in Latin America’ in Development Review, 1991, pp 11-27.

1987 ‘Latin America’s debt: deepening underdevelopment’ in Development Review, pp 31-45.

Book chapters

2007: ‘El impacto social de la globalización: De la pobreza a la vulnerabilidad’, in Octavio Juárez Uña, Jaime Hormigos Ruiz and Antonio Martin Cabello, co-ordinadores: Las dimensiones sociales de la globalización, Madrid: Paraninfo Cengage Learning, pp 13-42.

2007: ‘Development Strategies, Social Policy and Poverty Reduction: Lessons from Ireland ’, in Barataria Revista Castellano-Manchega de Ciencias Sociales, No 8, 2007, pp 127-42.

2007 'State Reform, Good Governance and Economic Development: The Irish and Costa Rican Development Models compared', in Franando Carillo Flórez and Luis Alberto Cordero, eds: Hacia El Buen Gobierno: Tareas aún pendientes, San José: Arias Foundation, 2007, pp. 190-208.

2007 ‘Implications of Globalisation: Present Imperfect, Future Tense’, in Anne Boran and Peter Cox, eds: Implications of Globalisation, Chester Academic Press, 2007, pp 24-51.

2007 ‘Populorum Progressio in the Era of Globalisation’, in The Development of Peoples: Challenges for Today and Tomorrow, edited by the International Jesuit Network for Development and published by the Columba Press, 2007, pp 118-127.

2006 ‘Between Europe and America’ in Andrew Wyndham, ed. Re-imagining Ireland, University of Virginia Press, pp 23-25.

2006 ‘The Changing Role of the Irish State: From welfare to competition state’ in Tom O’Connor and Mike Murphy, eds: Social Care in Ireland: Theory, Policy and Practice, CIT Press, 2006, pp 112-125.

2006 ‘Ireland’s Economic “Miracle”: Challenges from Development Theory’, in Majda Bne Saad and Maura Leen, eds: Trade, Aid and Development into the Twenty-first Century: A festschrift in honour of Helen O’Neill, UCD Press, 2006, pp 301-317.

2005 ‘The Irish State and the Celtic Tiger: A “flexible developmental state” or a competition state?’, in Graham Harrison, ed.: Global Encounters: International Political Economy, Development and Globalisation, Palgrave, pp 74-94.

2004 ‘Globalisation’, in B. Fanning, P. Kennedy, G. Kiely and S. Quinn, eds: Theorising Irish Social Policy, UCD Press, pp 23-41.

2003 Contributor to The Encyclopaedia of Ireland, Gill & Macmillan.

2001 ‘Inequality and Poverty in Ireland: Clarifying Social Objectives’ in Sara Cantillon, Carmel Corrigan, Peadar Kirby and Joan O’Flynn, eds: Rich and Poor: Perspectives on Tackling Inequality in Ireland, Oak Tree Press, pp 1-35.

1997 ‘Towards a Model of Development that Generates Equality’, in Equality Policies and Social Change, Community Workers’ Cooperative and the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA), pp 22-36.

Co-edited books

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

2006 co-editor with David Jacobson and Deiric Ó Broin: Taming the Tiger: Globalisation, Social Exclusion and Local Governance, Tasc and New Island Books.

2002 co-editor with Micheal Cronin and Luke Gibbons: Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy, Pluto Press.

2001 co-editor with Sara Cantillon, Carmel Corrigan and Joan O’Flynn: Rich and Poor: Perspectives on Tackling Inequality inIreland, Oak Tree Press.

1998 co-editor with David Jacobson: In the Shadow of the Tiger, DCU Press.

Pamphlets and Papers

2004 ‘Globalisation and Vulnerability’, Working Paper No. 129 in the Development Research Series, Research Center on Development and International Relations (DIR), University of Aalborg, Denmark.

2004 Todhchaí d’Éirinn: Pobal, Féinmheas, Teanga, Baile Átha Cliath: An Aimsir Óg.

2003 ‘Macroeconomic success and social vulnerability: Lessons for Latin America from the Celtic Tiger’, Serie Financiamiento del Desarrollo, Paper No. 129, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), Santiago, Chile.

2001 Is the Irish State Developmental?, Working Paper No 100, in the Development Research Series, Research Center on Development and International Relations (DIR), University of Aalborg, Denmark.

1994 Adjusting to Develop? The Impact of Neo-liberalism in Mexico, Oxfam Ireland.

1989 Unemployment: Combating the Cancer, Jesuit Solidarity Fund.

January 2008: Lecture on the Irish miracle to MBA students in INCAE business school, Alajuela, Costa Rica.

January 2008: 'El milagro irlandés: dilemas distributivos, sociedad civil y lecciones para América Latina', talk to leaders of Tercera Republica/CRISOL group, San José, Costa Rica

January 2008: ‘Migración y vulnerabilidad’, paper at conference ‘Desarrollo y Gobernabilidad Democrática: El reto de las migraciones y la cohesión social’, Arias Foundation, San José, Costa Rica.

January 2008: ‘El milagro irlandés: características y lecciones de política para América Latina’, lecture at the Institute of Social Research, University of Costa Rica, San José.

January 2008: ‘The State and Civil Society after the Celtic Tiger: Historical Explanations, Future Possibilities’, lecture at the Department of Applied Social Studies, UCC.

November 2007: Invited keynote speaker ‘El diseño de largo plazo: la política económica de Irlanda’ to a seminar series organised by a consortium of academics, NGOs and trade unions in Buenos Aires with a view to impacting on the policy of the incoming government.

November 2007: Briefings on Ireland’s model of development to policy makers at the Office for Planning and Budgeting (OPP) in the office of the President and at the Commission Sectorial para el Mercosur (Comisec), Montevideo, Uruguay.

November 2007: Invited speaker on ‘The Competition State: The Irish Lessons’ at a conference on Ireland and Denmark organised by the Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, in conjunction with the Irish Embassy to Denmark.

October 2007: ‘The Celtic Tiger: Learning the Lessons of Why we Failed’, research seminar to the Department of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway.

September 2007: Invited speaker on ‘Ireland’s Celtic Tiger: The Social Impact of Economic Growth’ at a conference on ‘The Source of Wealth in Small States’ at the University of Iceland, which was opened by the President of Iceland, President Olafur Ragner Grimsson.

June 2007: Paper entitled ‘Civil Society-State Relations in Central America’s Development: Towards a new paradigm?’ to a conference ‘Central America: Challenged Transition?’ at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, June 14^th and 15^th.

May/June 2007: Paper entitled ‘CEPAL’s Neo-structuralist Paradigm: Lessons from the Irish case’ to a conference on ‘Social Policy, Economic Development and Income Inequality: Latin America in Comparative Perspective’ at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, May 31^st and June 1^st.

May 2007: Invited speaker on ‘The Application of Human Security in OSCE Activities’ to an OSCE workshop on human security, in the Hofburg, Vienna.

May 2007: Keynote opening address on ‘Vulnerabilidad y globalización: Las raíces de los flujos migratorios’ at a conference entitled ‘La inmigración en España: horizontes para la convivencia’ at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid.

April 2007: Paper entitled ‘A Developmental or a Competition State?: Interrogating the Irish State’s developmental capacity’ to a conference on ‘Capacity Building in Small States’ in the University of Birmingham, April 4^th to 5^th.

March 2007: Lectures on the new left in Latin America and on the social impact of globalisation at the Institute of Political Studies, Charles University, Prague.

February 2007: Country paper on Ireland to workshop on Poverty Reduction and Policy Regimes at the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Palais des Nations, Geneva.

January 2007: ‘The Rise of the Left in Latin America: Moving beyond Neoliberalism?’ at the Department of Applied Social Studies, UCC.

January 2007: ‘Economic Success, Social Failure: The Celtic Tiger’, keynote address to conference of the South and Mid-West Community Development Support Agency, Tralee

January 2007: ‘Is the democratic project compatible with the values of neoliberal globalisation?’, public lecture at Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin

January 2007: ‘Introduction to Globalisation’ to students on the B of Soc. Studies in Housing and Community Studies, UCD

December 2006: ‘Small states aspiring to high-tech success: The contrasting roles of regionalism in the Irish and Costa Rican cases’, paper to panel on ‘Small States and Regionalism’ at the British International Studies Association annual conference in UCC.

October 2006: ‘Globalisation and Development: Lessons from Ireland’ at the College of Politics and Law, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China.

October 2006: ‘Globalisation and Development: Lessons from Ireland’ at the School of WTO Studies, Wuhan University, China.

October 2006: ‘Reforma del Estado, Buen Gobierno y Desarrollo Económico: El modelo de desarrollo de Irlanda comparado con Costa Rica’, lecture to a conference on ‘Buen Gobierno: Tareas Aun Pendientes’ organised by the Fundación Arias, San José, Costa Rica.

September 2006: ‘Globalisation, Vulnerability and the Role of the State: Lessons from the Irish Case’ to a group of students from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague who visited the Centre for International Studies in DCU.

September 2006: ‘The rise of people power in Latin America’ to the Tom Johnson Summer School, Kilkenny, September 3^rd.

July 2006: ‘Globalisation and threats to well-being: Critiquing the concept of human security, proposing the concept of vulnerability’ to the 20^th World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Fukuoka, Japan.

July 2006: ‘Globalisation, power shifts and human well-being: Reflections from the Irish Experience’ to a networking event of groups involved in the Education Equality Initiative, National College of Ireland, Dublin.

June 2006: Rapporteur on panel ‘UN Human Rights Council’ at the Department of Foreign Affairs Eighth Annual NGO Forum on Human Rights, Croke Park, Dublin.

June 2006: ‘Globalisation, power shifts and human well-being: Reflections from the Irish Experience’ to a conference on health promotion, NUI Galway.

June 2006: ‘Neo-liberalism “Irish style”: Is Ireland a competition or a developmental state?’ to the International Political Economy Group (IPEG) annual workshop, Lancaster University.

May 2006: lectures on 'Ireland's Experience in the EU', 'Citizens' Rights in Central America', 'Globalisation and Latin America', and 'Ireland as a Celtic Tiger: Lessons for new EU members', as well as a research seminar on 'Vulnerabilty and Globalisation' to staff and students of International Relations at Corvinus University, Budapest, May 8th to 12th.

May 2006: 'The Importance, Value and Utility of Research in the Social Sciences' to a conference on 'Advancing Research in Ireland' organised by the Irish Universities Quality Board at DCU.

April 2006: 'The Irish Republic: A project still to be completed' to a conference on 'The 1916 Rising: Then and Now', Trinity College, Dublin.

April 2006: 'Ireland as a Celtic Tiger: Lessons for new and aspiring EU members', in Bogazici University, Istanbul.

January 2006: Course entitled ‘Globalización, Vulnerabilidad y el Papel del Estado’ to the doctoral programme in government and public policy at the University of Costa Rica.

January 2006: ‘Globalización, Vulnerabilidad y el Papel del Estado: Lecciónes del caso irlandés’ to a conference on ‘Can Costa Rica become Ireland?’ at the University of Costa Rica, San José.

January 2006: ‘An Ireland Where there are No Excluded Ones’, lecture with Dr Katherine Zappone to series entitled ‘Emerging from the Shadow of the Tiger’, NorDubCo, DCU and Tasc.

January 2006: ‘Globalisation, Vulnerability and the Role of the State: Lessons for Ireland’ in UCC.

December 2005: ‘Karl Polanyi and Human Livelihood: Contributions to Some Contemporary Debates’ at symposium on ‘Karl Polanyi and the Critique of Market Society’, NUI Maynooth, December 13th

November 2005: ‘The Celtic Tiger as a Development Model’, talk to Eurodad conference in Marino Institute, Dublin.

November 2005: ‘Civil Society and National Development’, talk to Wexford Area Community Conference, Talbot Hotel, Wexford

September 2005: ‘Ireland and Globalisation’, lecture with Professor David Jacobson to series entitled ‘Emerging from the Shadow of the Tiger’, NorDubCo, DCU and Tasc.

June 2005: Paper entitled 'Civil Society in Central America: Reversing NGOisation?' to the Second Annual Conference of the Irish Latin American Studies Association, University College Cork.

June 2005: Speaker on panel 'Challenges in Promoting Sustainable Development and Human Rights in an Environment of Weak Governance' at the Department of Foreign Affairs Seventh Annual NGO Forum on Human Rights, Croke Park, Dublin.

June 2005: Paper entitled 'Bringing Society into IPE' to the annual conference of the International Political Economy Group at Nottingham Trent University.

May 2005: Invited speaker at research seminar at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick. My lecture was entitled ‘Civil Society in Central America: Reversing NGOisation?’

April 2005: Invited speaker on ‘Sociedad civil en América Central: Definiciónes y preguntas’ to a seminar of leaders of Central American civil society in Granada, Nicaragua.

January 2005: Lecture entitled 'Is Globalisation Good for Us? A look at vulnerability and its impacts' at the Department of Applied Social Studies, UCC.

January 2005: Lecture entitled 'Globalisation, Development and the Role of the State: Lessons from Ireland' at the Cork Institute of Technology.

December 2004: Paper entitled 'Globalisation and Human Well-being: Proposing the Concept of Vulnerability' to the British International Studies Association (BISA), University of Warwick, England

November 2004: Invited keynote speaker at conference on Karl Polanyi at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. My paper is entitled 'Polanyi and Human Livelihood: Timely Contributions to some very Contemporary Debates'

November 2004: Lecture entitled ‘Ireland’s Celtic Tiger: A Model for Central European Countries?’ at the Corvinus University, Budapest.

October 2004: Paper entitled 'Globalisation and Human Well-being: Proposing the Concept of Vulnerability' to the Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, University of Limerick

September 2004: Paper entitled ''El Consumo me Consume': Tomhaltóireacht, Féiniúlacht agus Cumhacht i Meiriceá Laidineach sa Lá atá inniu ann' to Indisciplinary Conference in the Humanities and Social Sciences, DCU

September 2004: Lecture entitled 'Globalisation, the Celtic Tiger and Social Outcomes: Is Ireland a Model or a Mirage?' to students of the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and the Centre for Development Studies, UCD.

July 2004: Speaker at launch of ‘Na Cathracha Caillte: Rogha Dánta’ , Irish-language translation of poems of Ernesto Cardenal, 6th July.

June 2004: ‘Bringing Development in from the Cold: DCU’s approach to education for critical awareness on the emerging world order’, to conference on ‘Globalisation and Inclusion: Challenges for Professional Education in the Third-Level Sector’, UCC, June 1st.

April 2004: Lecture to the annual conference of the Political Studies Association (UK) at Lincoln University. My lecture was entitled ‘The Irish State and the Celtic Tiger: A “flexible developmental state” or a competition state?’

April 2004: Lecture to MA students at the Peace and Development Research Institute at Gothenburg University, Sweden (Padrigu). My lecture was entitled ‘Globalisation, Vulnerability and the Role of International Development Assistance’.

March 2004: Lectures to MA students of development and international relations at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. I gave two lectures, one on the Celtic Tiger and one on vulnerability and globalisation.

March 2004: Invited keynote speaker at a conference in NUI Galway for Latin Americanists in Ireland. My lecture was entitled ‘El Consumo me consume: Consumerism, Identity and Power in Today’s Latin America’.

March 2004: Invited lecture at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. The lecture was entitled ‘Globalisation, Development and the Role of the State: Lessons from the Irish Case’.

March 2004: Lecture on the occasion of the award to me of the President’s Research Award for the humanities and social sciences, DCU. My lecture was entitled ‘Navigating in the Wake of the Celtic Tiger: Challenges for the Social Sciences’.

February 2004: Lectures on the impact of globalisation on Latin America to students of the MA in Development Studies, UCD. The lecture on February 5th deal with its impacts and on February 12th with responses to it.

January 2004: Lecture to students on the MBA in Health Services Management, College of Surgeons. The lecture was entitled ‘Globalisation, the Celtic Tiger and Social Policy: Is the Irish Model a Mirage?’.

January 2004: Lecture to students in the Department of applied Social Studies in UCC. The lecture was entitled ‘Understanding the Celtic Tiger: Challenges from Development Theory’.

November 2003: Lecture to students of the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague who were visiting Dublin to study Ireland’s development. The lecture took place in the Centre for Development Studies, UCD, and was entitled ‘Globalisation, the Celtic tiger and Social Outcomes’.

November 2003: Keynote speaker at a conference in University College Chester entitled ‘Implications of Globalisation: Present Imperfect, Future Tense’. As the keynote speaker I took the title of the conference as the title of my lecture.

October 2003: Paper on ‘The Place of Development in International Relations’ to the Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, Portmarnock.

September 2003: Keynote address on ‘Globalisation and World Order: Challenges for Social Policy’ to the annual conference of the Irish Social Policy Association (ISPA), Royal Dublin Hotel, Dublin.

August 2003: Paper entitled ‘Contribution of Raymond Crotty to Development Thinking’ to the Fifteenth Annual Desmond Greaves Summer School, Irish Labour History Museum, Beggar’s Bush, Dublin.

August 2003: Invited speaker at an international workshop on ‘Economic Growth and Inequality’, Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. I delivered two papers, entitled ‘Poverty and Inequality: Framing the Questions’ and ‘The Celtic Tiger: Growth with Inequality’.

July 2003: Invited speaker to launch Ireland and Post- Colonial Theory, edited by Clare Carroll and Patricia King (Cork
University Press, 2003) at Newman House, University College Dublin.

June 2003: Seminar on ‘Globalisation and Latin America’ at launch of my book Introduction to Latin America: Twenty-First
Century Challenges (Sage, 2003), Irish Writers Centre, Dublin.

May 2003: Invited speaker at international conference ‘Re-imagining Ireland: Transformation of Identity in a Global Context’, Virginia Foundations of the Humanities, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. I spoke on two panels, ‘Silicon Ireland’ (on May 8th) and ‘Between Europe and America’ (on May 9th).

March to May 2003: Visiting professor at the Institut des Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) where I taught a 10-lecture, 20-hour course to students of the DEA (post-MA, pre-PhD) on ‘The Place of Development in International Relations’.

March 2003: Invited speaker to seminar on ‘Beyond Aid’, Comhlámh, Dublin. Comhlámh is an NGO working with returned
development volunteers.

February 2003: Lecture entitled ‘Models of Development: The Irish Experience’ to MA students at the Centre for Development Studies, University College Dublin.

February 2003: Invited speaker to a staff and postgraduate research seminar at the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where I gave a paper entitled ‘Navigating in the Celtic Tiger’s Wake: Six Challenges for the Social Sciences’.

February 2003: Lecture on ‘Introduction to Latin America: Economics’ to an evening course on Latin America organised by the Latin America Support Centre (LASC), Dublin.

January 2003: Lecture on ‘Globalisation: Substance and Impacts’ to MA in Health Care, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin.