Peadar Kirby
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Peadar Kirby is an author and academic at Dublin City University: He specializes in issues concerning Latin America. He is a fluent speaker of the Irish language. He is involved in the Centre for International Studies at the university and is in charge of the ERASMUS programme for the Law and Government department. He gives lectures on 'Globalization: Global Political Economy', and 'Latin America: From colony to periphery.'
Other members of the department of Law and Government in DCU include; Gary Murphy, John Doyle, David Doyle, Robert Elgie and Maura Conway. For a full list of staff members visit the university website.
[edit] Published works
Books by Peadar Kirby include:
- Vulnerability and Violence: The Impact of Globalisation, Pluto Press, 2005.
- Introduction to Latin America: Twenty-first Century Challenges, Sage Publications, 2003.
- The Celtic Tiger in Distress: Growth with Inequality in Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
- Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy, Pluto Press, 2002.
- Rich and Poor: Perspectives on Tackling Inequality in Ireland, Oak Tree Press, in association with the Combat Poverty Agency, 2001.
- In the Shadow of the Tiger, DCU Press, 1998.
- Poverty Amid Plenty: World and Irish Development Reconsidered, Trocaire and Gill & Macmillan, 1997.
- Ireland and Latin America: Links and Lessons, Trocaire and Gill and Macmillan, 1992.
- Dialann o Nicearagua, An Clochomhar, 1990.
- Has Ireland a Future?, Mercier Press, 1988.
- Is Irish Catholicism Dying?, Mercier Press, 1984.
- Lessons in Liberation: The Church in Latin America, Dominican Publications, 1981.
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