Peadar Kirby

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Peadar Kirby is an author and academic at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. Up to the Academic Year 2006/2007 he was a Senior Professor at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. He specialises in issues concerning Latin America. He is a fluent speaker of the Irish language. He was involved in the Centre for International Studies at Dublin City University. While there he gave lectures on 'Globalization: Global Political Economy', and 'Latin America: From colony to periphery.'

[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, ISBN 0761973737.
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.