Peadar Kirby - Personal Profile

	Peadar Kirby E-mail:Peadar.kirby@ul.ie Telephone: 353-61-233757 Room: C1079 Complete list of Publications	Teaching: PO4013 Government and Politics in Ireland PO5031 Development Theory and Practice PO4077 Nations and Nationalism
	Peadar Kirby BA (UCD), BD (Maynooth), H.Dip (UCD),PhD (LSE) is Professor of International Politics and Public Policy, and director of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society, at the University of Limerick. His latest publications are Explaining Ireland's Development: Economic Growth with Weakening Welfare, Social Policy and Development Paper No. 37, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD, 2008), Power, Dissent and Democracy: Civil Society and the State in Ireland, co-edited with Deiric Ó Broin(A&A Farmar, 2009) and Transforming Ireland: Challenges, Critiques, Resources, co-edited with Debbie Ging and Michael Cronin (Manchester University Press, 2009). Director: Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society - ISKS