Volume 2 Issue 1 (2010)

• Introduction: boom to bust, Irish social policy in challenging times

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Articles

• From Catholic Church dominance to social partnership promise and now economic crisis, little changes in Irish social policy

  Joe Moran

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• What future lies ahead for the Irish welfare state?

  Mary Murphy

  22-36

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• The structural failure of Irish economic development and employment policy

  Tom O'Connor

  37-55

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• Access to third level education: challenges for equality of opportunity in post celtic tiger Ireland

  Nicola Maxwell, Claire Dorrity

  56-74

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• ‘When poverty flies in the window, love walks out the door’: recessionary times for people experiencing poverty

  Katherine Harford

  75-85

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Policy Reviews

• Policy review: national action plans for combating poverty and social exclusion – from 1997 to the present

  Cynthia Martin

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Opinions

• Comment piece: Reforming politics - where we should begin

  Michael D. Higgins

  105-108

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• Comment piece: Boom to bust: its impact on Irish health policy and health services

  Sara Burke

  109-111

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• Comment piece: From boom to bust – the experience of the Society of St Vincent de Paul

  Caroline Fahey, Brendan Hennessy

  112-114

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Book Reviews

• Book review: Celtic Tiger in Collapse: explaining the weaknesses of the Irish model by Peadar Kirby

  Cathal O’Connell

  115-116

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• Book review: Ship of Fools: how stupidity and corruption sank the celtic tiger by Fintan O'Toole

  Eileen Hogan

  117-121

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• Book review: The Dáil in the 21st Century by Anthony O’Halloran

  John Bruton

  122-123

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• Book review: Michael Davitt: new perspectives edited by Fintan Lane and Andrew G. Newby

  Patrick Buckley

  124-127

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• Book review: In Search of the Promised Land: the politics of post-war Ireland by Gary Murphy

  Tim McCarthy

  128-129

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• Book review: Repairing British Politics by Richard Gordon

  Professor Neil Collins

  130-132

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