Peadar Kirby, 

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

Professor Emeritus of International Politics and Public Policy, 

Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick

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

Lecturing

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Teaching at UL

• 'Development Theory and Practice' on the MA in Development and the MA in Peace and Development
• ‘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:

• March 2012: 'IED y Desarrollo: Lecciones de la experiencia irlandésa', lecture to MA students of economic development in the Complutense university, Madrid, March 26th

• November: 'Moving Leftward? Mapping the Options for Ireland', talk to the Betty Sinclair Winter School, Lustybeg Island, Fermanagh, November 26th 

• November: 'Comparing the Icelandic and the Irish Model', with Prof. Baldur Thorhallsson, talk at seminar on Nordic Models organised by TASC, Croke Park, Dublin, November 17th.

• November: 'Towards a Second Republic', lecture to public seminar series on Europe at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, November 11th.

• November: 'Ireland's Foreign and Security Policy', lecture at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, November 9th

• November: 'Ireland in the EU', lecture at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, November 8th.

• October: 'Globalisation I: Theories and Issues' and 'Globalisation II: The Case of Ireland', lectures on the Doctorate in Governance, Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, October 21st.

• October: 'Lessons from Latin America for the Irish Crisis: The importance of political economy', lecture to seminar at the University of Sheffield, Oct 6th.

• October: 'Representation or Participation? The role of state-civil society relations in shaping post-neoliberal futures', to workshop on post-neoliberalism in Latin America, University of Sheffield, October 7th.

• September: 'Changing Paradigms: Social Science Research in Ireland after the Collapse', keynote to research seminar, UCC, September 30th.

• September: 'From Research to Practice: Challenges and Potential', presentation to Development Studies Association of Ireland (DSAI) seminar, NUI Maynooth, September 8th. 

• June 2011: 'Rethinking Education', talk at conference on 'Rethinking Education' at the Tipperary Institute, Thurles, June 16th.

• June 2011: 'Building State Capacity', lecture to summer school on local democracy, UL, June 13th.

• June 2011: 'Ireland and Iceland: Same problems, different outcomes', talk to GreenGinger, Dublin, June12th.

• March 2011: 'From Megaboom to Megabust: How did we get into this mess?', lecture at Waterford Institute of Technology, March 14th. 

• October 2010: lectures on 'Globalisation and the Irish State' and 'The Irish State: Towards a Competition State' to students of doctorate on governance, Queen's University, Belfast, Oct 29th and 30th 

• October 2010: 'The Collapse of the Celtic Tiger: Learning the Lessons', lecture at Queen's University, Belfast, October 29th

• October 2010: 'Domhandú, Eacnamaíocht agus Féiniúlacht: Cás na hÉireann', to seminar on 'Féiniúlacht, Cultúr agus Teanga i Re an Domhandaithe' in Davenport Hotel, Dublin, October 16th

• July 2010: 'La Sociedad de Conocimiento: Aportes del caso irlandés para cuestionar un concepto hegemónico', to X Congreso Español de Sociología, Pamplona, July 2nd

• June 2010: 'From Vulnerability to Community Resilience' to conference on Investing in Ourselves: Realsing Jobs and Capital for Communities, Cloughjordan, June 1st

• May 2010: 'The Global Challenge' to conference on Rethinking Education for a Sustainable Ireland, Tipperary Institute, Thurles, May 31st

• May 2010: with Mary Murphy: 'Ireland as a Small State: Politics', and 'Ireland as a Small State: Economy', papers at a colloquium on small European island states, University of Malta, May 24th. 

• May 2010: 'Colapso del Tigre Celta: Lecciónes del modelo irlandés para América Latina', lecture at the Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo (CID), Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, May 13th. Article on lecture published by CID available at: http://www.cid.unal.edu.co/cidnews/index.php/ You Tube video of interview based on presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2eczR1NXEo

• May 2010: 'Vulneribilidad y globalización', lecture at the Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, May 6th.

• May 2010: 'Estado y sociedad civil en la epoca de la nueva izquierda en América Latina', lecture at the Department of Political Science, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, May 4th.

• April 2010: 'Globalisation and Successful Development: The Lessons of the Irish Collapse', Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, April 7th 

• March 2010: 'Globalisation and State-Civil Society Relationships: Lessons from Latin America' at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Munster, Germany, March 23rd 

• 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 23^rd.

• 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 13^th .

• 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 12^th .

• 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 11^th .

• 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 5^th.

• 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 28^th
• 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.

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Research interests:

• 2012: 'Educating for Paradigm Change', in Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review, vol 14, Spring 2012, pp 19-32 

• 2011: 'The Myth of the Celtic Tiger: The political economy of Irish development since the 1990s', in Liam Leonard and Iosif Botetzaglas, eds: Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries: Ireland and Greece, Emerald Books, 2011, pp 3-23.

• 2011: (with Baldur Thorhallsson): Financial Crises in Iceland and Ireland: Does EU membership and the euro matter? TASC and the Centre for Small State Studies, November 2011

• 2011: (with Mary P. Murphy): Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger, Pluto Press, 2011

• 2011: 'Gangs and Wolves: Violence and Vulnerability in a Global Economy', in Open Democracy, October 12th

• 2011: 'When banks cannibalize the state: Responses to Ireland's economic collapse', in Leo Panitch, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber, eds: The Crisis and the Left: Socialist Register 2012, Merlin and Monthly Review, 2011, pp 249-268. 

• 'Domhandú, Eacnamaíocht agus Féiniúlacht: Cás na hÉireann', in Breandán Mac Cormaic, ed.: Féiniúlacht, Cultúr agus Teanga i Ré an Domhandaithe, Coiscéim, 2011, pp. 254-68.

• 2011: 'Globalisation and Identity: Reflections from the Irish Experience', in Pádraig Ó Duibhir, Rory McDaid and Andrew O'Shea, eds: All changed? Culture and Identity in Contemporary Ireland, the Fifth Seamus Heaney Lectures, Duras Press, 2011, pp. 145-66.

• 2011: 'Vulnerability and Globalization: Mediating Impacts on Society', in Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2011, pp. 86-105.

• 2011: 'Ireland's Angry Election', paper on policy-network.net, available at www.policy-network.net/articles/

• 2011: 'Facing an Angry Electorate: Irish Politicians Desperately Seek to Convince', briefing paper on the Irish elections, February 2011, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Berlin. Version in German: 'Wahlanalyse Irland 2011'.

• 2011 with Mary Murphy: 'Globalisation and Models of State: Debates and Evidence from Ireland', in New Political Economy, Vol. 16, No. 1, February 2011, pp. 19-39.

• 2011: 'When Banks Cannibalise a State: Analysing Ireland's Financial Crisis', published by the Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid, available at http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_eng/

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• 2010: ‘Civil society, social movements and the Irish state’, in Irish Journal of Sociology, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2010, pp. 1-22.

• 2010: ‘Lessons from the Irish Collapse: Taking an International Political Economy Approach’, in Irish Studies in International Affairs, Vol. 21, 2010, pp 43-55.

• 2010: ‘Probing the Significance of Latin America’s “Pink Tide”’, in European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vol. 89, pp127-33.

• 2010: 'The Irish Miracle and its Collapse: Learning the Lessons', in In Depth, Vol. 7, Issue 3, bimonthly electronic newsletter of the Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia, available at: http://www.rcenter.intercol.edu/Newsletter/In%20Depth

• 2010: '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.

• 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. 

• 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.

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Forthcoming publications:

• 2012 (co-edited with Barry Cannon): Civil Society and the State in Left-led Latin America: Challenges and Limitations to Democratisation, Zed Books. 

• 2012 (with Baldur Thorhallsson): 'Financial crises in Iceland and Ireland: Does EU and euro membership matter?' in Journal of Common Market Studies.

• 2012: 'Educating for Paradigm Change' in Policy and Practice.