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Pamphlets and Working Papers

2013: Tábhacht na Gaeilge i dtodhchaí na tire: The Necessity for Re-Europeanising Ireland’, Coiscéim

2011: (with Baldur Thorhallsson) Financial Crises in Iceland and Ireland: Does EU membership and the euro matter? TASC and the Centre for Small State Studies, November 2011 

2009: with Pádraig Carmody: ‘Moving Beyond the Legacies of the Celtic Tiger’, IIIS Discussion Paper No. 300, Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, October 2009

2009: ‘The Competition State – Lessons from Ireland’, Limerick Papers in Politics and Public Administration, No. 1, 2009.

2008: Explaining Ireland’s Development: Economic Growth with Weakening Welfare, Social Policy and Development Paper No. 36, UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, 2008. 

2008: A Better Ireland is Possible: The Challenge of Voicing an Alternative Vison for Ireland, with Mary Murphy, Community Platform, Dec 2008.

2004 ‘Globalisation and Vulnerability’, Working Paper No. 129 in the Development Research Series, Research Center on Development and International Relations (DIR), University of Aalborg, Denmark.

2004 Todhchaí d’Éirinn: Pobal, Féinmheas, Teanga, Baile Átha Cliath: An Aimsir Óg.

2003 ‘Macroeconomic success and social vulnerability: Lessons for Latin America from the Celtic Tiger’, Serie Financiamiento del Desarrollo, Paper No. 129, UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), Santiago, Chile.

2001 Is the Irish State Developmental?, Working Paper No 100, in the Development Research Series, Research Center on Development and International Relations (DIR), University of Aalborg, Denmark.

1994 Adjusting to Develop? The Impact of Neo-liberalism in Mexico, Oxfam Ireland.

1989 Unemployment: Combating the Cancer, Jesuit Solidarity Fund.

Blog Posts

  • Climate Action: A Plan Requiring a Revolutionary Change in Developmental Direction
  • Spain bucks electoral trends
  • Rise of the new right: Is Ireland immune?
  • New climate action report signals a revolution in Ireland’s development: Are we up to it?

Latest book by Peadar analyzes how we can transition to a low-carbon society.

This book addresses the global need to transition to a low-carbon society and economy by 2050. The authors interrogate the dominant frames used for understanding this challenge and the predominant policy approaches for achieving it. Highlighting the techno-optimism that informs our current understanding and policy options, this book written by Peadar Kirby and Tadhg O’Mahony draws on the lessons of international development to situate the transition within a political economy framework. Assisted by thinking on future scenarios, they critically examine the range of pathways being implemented by both developed and developing countries, identifying the prevailing forms of climate capitalism led by technology. Based on evidence that this is inadequate to achieve a low-carbon and sustainable society, the authors identify an alternative approach. This advance emerges from community initiatives, discussions on postcapitalism and debates about wellbeing and degrowth. The re-positioning of society and environment at the core of development can be labelled “ecosocialism” – a concept which must be tempered against the conditions created by Trumpism and Brexit.

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