President Michael D. Higgins has caused some controversy (though this might be too strong a word) for his more outspoken comments on some issues. In a speech he gave in DCU in September he was highly critical of neo-liberalism as an ideology and economics as a discipline. We should hardly be surprised. Most know where…
Although the office of President of Ireland has attracted a great deal of public attention, especially since the election of Mary Robinson in 1990, the presidency has been the subject of little analysis. This gap in our knowledge of Irish politics is filled by this timely collection, which brings together a set of studies that explore the political role…
The Department of Government, UCC, in partnership with the Centre for Study of Wider Europe in NUI Maynooth is delighted to announce an upcoming conference ‘Reflections on Forty Years of Irish Membership of the EU’ in University College Cork, 28-29 November 2013.
