Irish Society
The Irish Society series provides a critical, interdisciplinary and in-depth analysis of Ireland that reveals the processes and forces shaping social, economic, cultural and political life, and their outcomes for communities and social groups. The books seek to understand the evolution of social, economic and spatial relations from a broad range of perspectives, and explore the challenges facing Irish society in the future given present conditions and policy instruments.
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Rob Kitchin
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First published 2015
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Maura Adshead and Tom Felle
Nat OConnor
Maura Adshead
Jennifer Kavanagh
Richard Dowling
Mark Mulqueen
Conor Ryan
Tom Felle and Gavin Sheridan
Eithne FitzGerald, John Carroll and Peter Tyndall
Maura Adshead, Tom Felle and Nat OConnor
; and co-editor (with Michelle Millar) of Public Administration and Public Policy in Ireland: theory and methods, Routledge 2003 and (with Peadar Kirby and Michelle Millar) Contesting the State: lessons from the Irish case, Manchester University Press, 2008. She has published a variety of articles on aspects of Irish politics and public policy and has carried out commissioned research for Combat Poverty, the Health Service Executive and the National Economic and Social Forum.
John Carroll is the CEO of the Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII). From 2011 to 2014 he was Policy Adviser to Minister Leo Varadkar at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. Prior to that, between 2007 and 2011 he worked as a Parliamentary Assistant to Deputy Varadkar when he was Opposition spokesperson on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, and Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. Carroll holds a BA in History and an MA in International Relations. He has a strong interest in political reform measures, particularly those that relate to the role of the Oireachtas in government and legislation. He is writing in a personal capacity.
Richard Dowling is North-Eastern correspondent with RTE, and is a grandson of R.J. Dowling, the state broadcasters first political correspondent. He began his career with the Waterford News & Star before moving to RTE. He is author of Secrets of the State and how to get them (2011, Liffey Press) and was an early adopter and is a regular user of the Freedom of Information Act in his work as a journalist. A keen proponent of openness in government, he has given workshops to colleagues and to students on how to use FOI.
Tom Felle is acting director of newspaper journalism at City University London, and was formerly head of journalism at the University of Limerick. Prior to that he was a career newspaper journalist and worked for a decade as a reporter and correspondent at the Independent (Dublin); as Bureau Chief of the Leb News Agency (Beirut); and as Deputy Editor of the Irish Echo (Sydney). He has contributed to a number of books on issues including media policy, press regulation, investigative reporting and local journalism. In 2013 he was appointed by the Irish Government to a national expert committee examining the implementation of Irelands FOI legislation.
Eithne FitzGerald is policy officer with the National Disability Authority. She is a former Labour Party TD and was Minister of State at the Department of Finance, and a member of the Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left Rainbow Government between 1994 and 1997 that introduced the Freedom of Information Act. She was first elected to the Dil in 1992 for the Dublin South constituency.
Jennifer Kavanagh is a law lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology and completed her PhD in the School of Law at the University of Dublin (Trinity College). Her research is in the areas of constitutional law, media law and politics and the law. She is a member of the executive committee of the Irish Political Studies Association. She is also a member of the Irish Association of Law Teachers. She is a regular contributor to the PSAI website, politicalreform.ie, and writes on civil liberty issues for humanrights.ie. She has also appeared in national media as a legal and political commentator.
Mark Mulqueen was appointed the first Head of Communications for the Houses of the Oireachtas in 2007. He has responsibility for the design and implementation of the national parliaments communications strategy, incorporating media, web and social media, broadcasting, corporate branding, education and outreach, visitor experience, public events, public information and publishing. He is also the parliaments spokesperson. Prior to this, he was CEO of the Irish Film Institute. He holds a masters degree in Political Communications from Dublin City University.
Nat OConnor is a former Director of the Think Tank for Action on Social Change. He also lectures on policy analysis at the Department of Applied Social Studies, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Nat previously led the research team in the Homeless Agency. He has a PhD in Political Science from Trinity College Dublin and an MA in Political Science and Social Policy from the University of Dundee. His PhD studies were on democracy and freedom of information.
