Peadar Kirby

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.'

Kirby has published a number of books on the Economy of Ireland. He has also written on Latin America (including liberation theology), and is the author of a textbook on the subject (Introduction to Latin America: Twenty-First Century Challenges, 2003).

Published works Books by Peadar Kirby include: Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis: Transforming Market Society in the Era of Climate Change, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger with Mary Murphy, Pluto Press, 2011 Celtic Tiger in Collapse: Explaining the Weaknesses of the Irish Model, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 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, Trócaire and Gill and Macmillan, 1992. Dialann ó Nicearagua, An Clóchomhar, 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.