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Douglas Hyde Conference 2012 Biographies of Speakers
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Dr. Maura Adshead:
Dr. Maura Adshead is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. Prior to her appointment in Limerick, she carried out research and taught in the universities of Dundee, Liverpool, Essex, Galway and Dublin. Her research interests focus on Irish politics and public policy, comparative studies of public policy, policy change, and EU involvement in the policy process in European states.
She is author of Developing European Regions? Ashgate, 2002, co-author (with Jonathon Tonge) of Government and Politics in Ireland. Unity and diversity on a two-polity island, Palgrave, 2009; 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 articles in a variety of academic journals and carried out commissioned research for Combat Poverty, the HSE and the NESF.
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Senator Ivana Bacik:
Ivana Bacik is Reid Professor of Criminal Law at Trinity College Dublin, and a practicing barrister. She is a Labour Party Senator for Dublin University (elected 2007 and re-elected 2011), and Deputy Leader of Seanad Eireann. Her publications include Kicking and Screaming: Dragging Ireland into the Twenty-First Century (O’Brien, 2004). |
Dr. Eoin Daly:
Eoin Daly is a lecturer in constitutional law and legal theory at University College Dublin. He specialises in the constitutional dimensions of the Church State relationship, political theory and law, as well as theories of justice in political philosophy. He is author of"Religion, Law and the Irish State: the Constitutional Framework in Context" (Clarus, 2012). |
Dr. Tom Hickey:
Dr. Tom Hickey teaches various subjects in public law and legal philosophy at the School of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway. His research, which draws on republican scholarship, deals with religious freedom in the areas of education and schooling as well as
citizenship and civic education. He is a native of Castlecoote, Co. Roscommon. |
Eoin Ó Broin:
Eoin Ó Broin is a writer, Sinn Fein activist and political advisor to Sinn Fein Finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty TD. He is a member of the Sinn Fein Ard Comhairle and the partys representative in the constituency of Dublin Mid West activist. He is the author of three books, Matxinada, Basque nationalism and radical Basque youth movements (LRB, 2003), Sinn Fein and the politics of left republicanism (Pluto, 2009) and A Better Ireland, Arguments for a New Republic (Pluto, 2013). He is a regular contributor to An Phoblacht, Irish Left Review and Politico. |
Donncha O’Connell:
Donncha O'Connell is a Lecturer in Law at NUI Galway where he teaches Constitutional Law and European Human Rights. He is a part-time Commissioner of the Law Reform and a member of the Legal Aid Board, but is speaking in a personal capacity. Donncha edits the Irish Human Rights Law Review published biennially by Clarus Press. He was, from 19992002, the first full-time Director of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties. He served a term as Dean of Law at NUI Galway from 2005-2008 and is a member of a number of boards including that of the London-based NGO, INTERIGHTS, and the internationally-acclaimed Druid Theatre Company based in Galway. He writes and speaks extensively on human rights and equality issues. |
Dr. Niamh Puirséil:
Niamh Puirséil is an independent historian. The author of The Irish Labour Party 192273, she has written widely on Irish politics and the labour movement. A former research fellow in the Centre for Contemporary Irish History, TCD, she has previously lectured in UCD and is currently writing a history of the Irish National Teachers Organisation. |
Dr. Judy Walsh:
Judy Walsh is Director of the Equality Studies Research Centre at the UCD School of Social Justice where she also teaches modules on equality and human rights law. She collaborates with several organisations working on social justice issues and is a board member of the Participation and Practice of Rights Project and Healthy Food for All. |
Theo Dorgan:
Theo Dorgan is a poet, broadcaster, translator, editor and documentary scriptwriter. His poetry collections include The Ordinary House of Love, Rosa Mundi and Sappho’s Daughter. He is the editor of Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh, and co-edited Revising the Rising, The Great Book of Ireland, the anthology Watching The River Flow and An Leabhar Mór, the Great
Book of Gaelic.
His work has been translated into and published in many languages, including selected poems in Italian, La Casa ai Margini del Mundo, and a Spanish-language edition of Sappho’s Daughter, La Hija de Safo. His Jason and The Argonauts, to music by Howard Goodall, was commissioned by and premiered in the Royal Albert Hall in 2004. Sailing for Home, his prose memoir of an Atlantic crossing under sail, was published in late 2004, and his Songs of Earth and Air, translations of the Slovenian poet Barbara Korun, has just been published as part of the European Capital of Culture 2005 Literature programme.
A member of Aosdána, he was a member of The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon from 2003 to 2008. Born in Cork in 1953, he lives in Dublin. |
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