Peadar Kirby
Biographic Data
| ID | 3846057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peadar Kirby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peadar |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirby |
| SIGNATURE | KIRBY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Uncovering the Deep Crisis of the Liberal Status Quo
Trump’s Return: Polanyian Perspectives
A Loss of Vision on the Environmental Crisis
Ireland's Development Model: Introduction
The Rise of the Far-Right: From Condemnation to Understanding
The Rise of the Far-Right: From Condemnation to Understanding Peadar Kirby (bio) Two days after the riots in Dublin city centre on 23 November 2023, Fintan O'Toole published an article in The Irish Times. While the article was a heartfelt and emotional response to a terrible spectacle of anti-social violence and thuggery, it was also disturbing in two senses. The first was O'Toole's assertion, referring to those who carried out the violence, that…
The Rise of the Far-Right, Part II: Towards a New Politics
Countering the Neoliberal Story
How to Address the Climate Crisis
How to Address the Climate Crisis Peadar Kirby (bio) Greta Thunberg (ed.), The Climate Book (London: Allen Lane, 2022), 446 pages. Gregory Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), 584 pages. ‘Will we be able to use our skills, our knowledge and our technology to create a cultural shift that will make us change in time to avert a climate and environmental catastrophe?’ asks Greta …
Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern ed. by Samuel K. Fisher and Brian Ó Conchubhair (review)
Reviewed by: Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern ed. by Samuel K. Fisher and Brian Ó Conchubhair Peadar Kirby (bio) Samuel K. Fisher and Brian Ó Conchubhair (eds.), Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern (Winston-Salem NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2022), 963 pages. The title of this formidable tome comes from Seathrún Céitinn's Foras Feasa ar É…
Living Lightly on Our Planet: Challenges for Ireland
Living Lightly on Our Planet: Challenges for Ireland Peadar Kirby (bio) At the time of writing this article in the autumn of 2022, a slew of authoritative reports and studies underline the extremely precarious nature of the current situation facing humanity and the other species with which we share this beautiful planet. To take a few examples: • The UN Emissions Gap Report showed that updated national emission-reduction pledges since the Glasgow…
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (review)
Reviewed by: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan Dr Peadar Kirby (bio) Peter Frankopan, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 695 pages. The renowned historian Peter Frankopan begins this long and detailed book by saying that he wants 'to assess why we seem to have arrived at the edge of a precipice where the future of our species–as well as those of a significant part of the animal and plant…
One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922–2022 by John Walsh
Reviewed by: One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922–2022 by John Walsh Peadar Kirby (bio) John Walsh, One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922–2022 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022), 384 pages. When welcoming the Irish language achieving full status in the European Union at the beginning of 2022, President Higgins made the following call to all Irish people: Now I say throw off all the inhibitions, the excuses, the laziness and as the …
Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis: Transforming Market Society in the Era of Climate Change
Investigating the causes of our current global crisis by drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi, Peadar Kirby explores Polanyi's theory that social disruptions are caused by the attempt to run society according to the rules of the market. Kirby uses these ideas to tackle weaknesses in Marxism and demonstrate how we can build a strong alternative theory. By linking the ecological and socio-economic crises, Kirby highlights how an alternative socio-ec…
Transforming Capitalism: The Triple Crisis
This article identifies a triple crisis of capitalism based on the three fictitious commodities as identified by Karl Polanyi: labour, money and land. This framework is used to integrate the environmental crisis into the wider crisis of capitalism. It argues that international actions required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are going to present major challenges for capitalism with implications for the current dominance of market power and the…
Limiting theory: Rethinking approaches to cultures of globalization
Globalization evokes a range of reactions from anger to pride, and from enthusiasm to fear. Both the word itself and the realities that it is taken to represent provoke strong opinions and powerful emotions
Political Participation of Civil Society in Latin America
Review Essay of:– Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America: Confrontation or co-optation?, edited by Gary Prevost, Carlos Oliva Campos and Harry E. Vanden, Zed Books, 2012. – Culturas políticas en la región andina, edited by Christian Buschges, Olaf Kaltmeier and Sebastian Thies, Iberoamericana, 2011.– La plasmación política de la diversidad: Autonomía y participación política indígena en América Latina, edited by Felipe Gómez Is…
Ireland in the World Order: A History of Uneven Development
Maurice Coakley, Pluto Press, 2012,, ISBN 9780745331256, £19.99 (pbk), 238 pp. During the years of the Celtic Tiger boom, Irish elites and public opinion generally liked to believe that Ireland had
Financial Crises in Iceland and Ireland: Does European Union and Euro Membership Matter
The article examines the claims of the small states literature on the importance of alliance formation. It applies it to the case of Ireland and Iceland and asks whether membership of the EU and euro in Ireland and the absence of these in Iceland had a say in their reduction of risk before the financial crisis, assistance in absorbing the shock of their crash and help in recovering after it. The article argues that the notion of shelter needs to …
Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger
Vulnerability and globalisation: Mediating impacts on society
This article introduces the concept of vulnerability and discusses its utility for the identification of the impacts upon society, particularly upon human rights and the environment, of the multiple processes that we label ‘globalisation’. The author argues that vulnerability, an essentially two-sided concept, is intimately informed by the notion of ‘resilience’ – a principle well able to guide practical policy and political responses to vulnerab…
Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger
List of Tables List of Figures List of Boxes Glossary of Irish Political Terms and Political Titles Abbreviations Preface 1. Introduction: Ireland and the Future of Capitalism Part I: The Irish State 2. Irish Politics 3. The Irish State Bureaucracy Section II: The Celtic Tiger Model 4. Managing the Irish Boom 5. The Losers 6. The Winners Section III: International Context 7. The European Union 8. Reykjavik and Beyond Section IV: Towards a Second …
Civil Society, Social Movements and the Irish State
This article develops a theoretical framework to consider the symbiotic relationship between civil society, social movements and the Irish state. Civil society, largely through social movements, laid the foundations for an independent Irish state in the half-century before independence. Following independence, the nature of the civil society–state relationship changed; civil society became much more dependent on the state. The article empirically…
Globalisation and Models of State: Debates and Evidence from Ireland
Ireland’s economic boom from 1994 to 2000 (widely labeled the ‘Celtic Tiger’) has been seen by analysts as indicating the country’s success in benefiting from the opportunities offered by globalisation. While an initial reading emphasised that economic transformation had been achieved through market liberalisation, this was soon contested by a literature that focused more on the crucial role played by the state. Scholars at the influential Econom…
Neo-structuralism and reforming the Latin American state: Lessons from the Irish case
Since its first formulation in the 1990s, CEPAL's neo-structuralist paradigm has acted as an alternative policy paradigm to neo-liberalism in the region. While it has been much criticized, it is now being seen by some as the inspiration for the alternative to neo-liberalism that the new left-wing governments in the region are seeking to implement. In the light of this, a critical examination of what these ideas mean in practice is of major import…
Theorising globalisation's social impact: Proposing the concept of vulnerability
The concept of vulnerability was introduced into IR theorising by Keohane and Nye who saw it as one of the consequences of complex interdependence and it is being increasingly employed by IGOs to capture the impact of globalisation on society. However, the concept has been little used in the academic literature on globalisation, except in a descriptive sense. This article argues that the concept has the potential to fill a gap in the toolkit of t…
Globalisation and Models of State: Debates and Evidence from Ireland
Ireland’s economic boom from 1994 to 2000 (widely labeled the ‘Celtic Tiger’) has been seen by analysts as indicating the country’s success in benefiting from the opportunities offered by globalisation. While an initial reading emphasised that economic transformation had been achieved through market liberalisation, this was soon contested by a literature that focused more on the crucial role played by the state. Scholars at the influential Econom…
Financial Crises in Iceland and Ireland: Does European Union and Euro Membership Matter
The article examines the claims of the small states literature on the importance of alliance formation. It applies it to the case of Ireland and Iceland and asks whether membership of the EU and euro in Ireland and the absence of these in Iceland had a say in their reduction of risk before the financial crisis, assistance in absorbing the shock of their crash and help in recovering after it. The article argues that the notion of shelter needs to …
Ireland in the World Order: A History of Uneven Development
Maurice Coakley, Pluto Press, 2012,, ISBN 9780745331256, £19.99 (pbk), 238 pp. During the years of the Celtic Tiger boom, Irish elites and public opinion generally liked to believe that Ireland had
Globalization, the Celtic Tiger and social outcomes: Is Ireland a model or a mirage
Ireland's Celtic Tiger economic boom has merited a great deal of attention as a successful model for small and peripheral states in this era of globalization. This article offers an alternative reading through examining social outcomes and interrogating the Irish model in the light of them. It seeks to answer the question whether Ireland offers a model to be followed or whether what appears to be a model is, on closer inspection, a mirage. The ar…
Development Theory and the Celtic Tiger
Neo-structuralism and reforming the Latin American state: Lessons from the Irish case
Since its first formulation in the 1990s, CEPAL's neo-structuralist paradigm has acted as an alternative policy paradigm to neo-liberalism in the region. While it has been much criticized, it is now being seen by some as the inspiration for the alternative to neo-liberalism that the new left-wing governments in the region are seeking to implement. In the light of this, a critical examination of what these ideas mean in practice is of major import…
Theorising globalisation's social impact: Proposing the concept of vulnerability
The concept of vulnerability was introduced into IR theorising by Keohane and Nye who saw it as one of the consequences of complex interdependence and it is being increasingly employed by IGOs to capture the impact of globalisation on society. However, the concept has been little used in the academic literature on globalisation, except in a descriptive sense. This article argues that the concept has the potential to fill a gap in the toolkit of t…
The World Bank or Polanyi: Markets, Poverty and Social Well-being in Latin America
Vulnerability and globalisation: Mediating impacts on society
This article introduces the concept of vulnerability and discusses its utility for the identification of the impacts upon society, particularly upon human rights and the environment, of the multiple processes that we label ‘globalisation’. The author argues that vulnerability, an essentially two-sided concept, is intimately informed by the notion of ‘resilience’ – a principle well able to guide practical policy and political responses to vulnerab…
Ireland's Paper Tiger
Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy
The Celtic Tiger in Distress: Growth with Inequality in Ireland
Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy has been held up as a model of successful development in a globalized world, offering lessons for other late developing countries. It interrogates the principal theoreti
The World Bank or Polanyi: Markets, Poverty and Social Well-being in Latin America
Globalization, the Celtic Tiger and social outcomes: Is Ireland a model or a mirage
Ireland's Celtic Tiger economic boom has merited a great deal of attention as a successful model for small and peripheral states in this era of globalization. This article offers an alternative reading through examining social outcomes and interrogating the Irish model in the light of them. It seeks to answer the question whether Ireland offers a model to be followed or whether what appears to be a model is, on closer inspection, a mirage. The ar…
Development Theory and the Celtic Tiger
Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity (review)
Theorising globalisation's social impact: Proposing the concept of vulnerability
The concept of vulnerability was introduced into IR theorising by Keohane and Nye who saw it as one of the consequences of complex interdependence and it is being increasingly employed by IGOs to capture the impact of globalisation on society. However, the concept has been little used in the academic literature on globalisation, except in a descriptive sense. This article argues that the concept has the potential to fill a gap in the toolkit of t…
Neo-structuralism and reforming the Latin American state: Lessons from the Irish case
Since its first formulation in the 1990s, CEPAL's neo-structuralist paradigm has acted as an alternative policy paradigm to neo-liberalism in the region. While it has been much criticized, it is now being seen by some as the inspiration for the alternative to neo-liberalism that the new left-wing governments in the region are seeking to implement. In the light of this, a critical examination of what these ideas mean in practice is of major import…
Civil Society, Social Movements and the Irish State
This article develops a theoretical framework to consider the symbiotic relationship between civil society, social movements and the Irish state. Civil society, largely through social movements, laid the foundations for an independent Irish state in the half-century before independence. Following independence, the nature of the civil society–state relationship changed; civil society became much more dependent on the state. The article empirically…
Globalisation and Models of State: Debates and Evidence from Ireland
Ireland’s economic boom from 1994 to 2000 (widely labeled the ‘Celtic Tiger’) has been seen by analysts as indicating the country’s success in benefiting from the opportunities offered by globalisation. While an initial reading emphasised that economic transformation had been achieved through market liberalisation, this was soon contested by a literature that focused more on the crucial role played by the state. Scholars at the influential Econom…
Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger
Vulnerability and globalisation: Mediating impacts on society
This article introduces the concept of vulnerability and discusses its utility for the identification of the impacts upon society, particularly upon human rights and the environment, of the multiple processes that we label ‘globalisation’. The author argues that vulnerability, an essentially two-sided concept, is intimately informed by the notion of ‘resilience’ – a principle well able to guide practical policy and political responses to vulnerab…
Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger
List of Tables List of Figures List of Boxes Glossary of Irish Political Terms and Political Titles Abbreviations Preface 1. Introduction: Ireland and the Future of Capitalism Part I: The Irish State 2. Irish Politics 3. The Irish State Bureaucracy Section II: The Celtic Tiger Model 4. Managing the Irish Boom 5. The Losers 6. The Winners Section III: International Context 7. The European Union 8. Reykjavik and Beyond Section IV: Towards a Second …
Ireland in the World Order: A History of Uneven Development
Maurice Coakley, Pluto Press, 2012,, ISBN 9780745331256, £19.99 (pbk), 238 pp. During the years of the Celtic Tiger boom, Irish elites and public opinion generally liked to believe that Ireland had
Financial Crises in Iceland and Ireland: Does European Union and Euro Membership Matter
The article examines the claims of the small states literature on the importance of alliance formation. It applies it to the case of Ireland and Iceland and asks whether membership of the EU and euro in Ireland and the absence of these in Iceland had a say in their reduction of risk before the financial crisis, assistance in absorbing the shock of their crash and help in recovering after it. The article argues that the notion of shelter needs to …
Transforming Capitalism: The Triple Crisis
This article identifies a triple crisis of capitalism based on the three fictitious commodities as identified by Karl Polanyi: labour, money and land. This framework is used to integrate the environmental crisis into the wider crisis of capitalism. It argues that international actions required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are going to present major challenges for capitalism with implications for the current dominance of market power and the…
Limiting theory: Rethinking approaches to cultures of globalization
Globalization evokes a range of reactions from anger to pride, and from enthusiasm to fear. Both the word itself and the realities that it is taken to represent provoke strong opinions and powerful emotions
Political Participation of Civil Society in Latin America
Review Essay of:– Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America: Confrontation or co-optation?, edited by Gary Prevost, Carlos Oliva Campos and Harry E. Vanden, Zed Books, 2012. – Culturas políticas en la región andina, edited by Christian Buschges, Olaf Kaltmeier and Sebastian Thies, Iberoamericana, 2011.– La plasmación política de la diversidad: Autonomía y participación política indígena en América Latina, edited by Felipe Gómez Is…
Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis: Transforming Market Society in the Era of Climate Change
Investigating the causes of our current global crisis by drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi, Peadar Kirby explores Polanyi's theory that social disruptions are caused by the attempt to run society according to the rules of the market. Kirby uses these ideas to tackle weaknesses in Marxism and demonstrate how we can build a strong alternative theory. By linking the ecological and socio-economic crises, Kirby highlights how an alternative socio-ec…
One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922–2022 by John Walsh
Reviewed by: One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922–2022 by John Walsh Peadar Kirby (bio) John Walsh, One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922–2022 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022), 384 pages. When welcoming the Irish language achieving full status in the European Union at the beginning of 2022, President Higgins made the following call to all Irish people: Now I say throw off all the inhibitions, the excuses, the laziness and as the …
How to Address the Climate Crisis
How to Address the Climate Crisis Peadar Kirby (bio) Greta Thunberg (ed.), The Climate Book (London: Allen Lane, 2022), 446 pages. Gregory Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), 584 pages. ‘Will we be able to use our skills, our knowledge and our technology to create a cultural shift that will make us change in time to avert a climate and environmental catastrophe?’ asks Greta …
Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern ed. by Samuel K. Fisher and Brian Ó Conchubhair (review)
Reviewed by: Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern ed. by Samuel K. Fisher and Brian Ó Conchubhair Peadar Kirby (bio) Samuel K. Fisher and Brian Ó Conchubhair (eds.), Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern (Winston-Salem NC: Wake Forest University Press, 2022), 963 pages. The title of this formidable tome comes from Seathrún Céitinn's Foras Feasa ar É…
Living Lightly on Our Planet: Challenges for Ireland
Living Lightly on Our Planet: Challenges for Ireland Peadar Kirby (bio) At the time of writing this article in the autumn of 2022, a slew of authoritative reports and studies underline the extremely precarious nature of the current situation facing humanity and the other species with which we share this beautiful planet. To take a few examples: • The UN Emissions Gap Report showed that updated national emission-reduction pledges since the Glasgow…
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (review)
Reviewed by: The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan Dr Peadar Kirby (bio) Peter Frankopan, The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 695 pages. The renowned historian Peter Frankopan begins this long and detailed book by saying that he wants 'to assess why we seem to have arrived at the edge of a precipice where the future of our species–as well as those of a significant part of the animal and plant…
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