Böcker i Sireacht: Longings for another Ireland-serien

Trade Union Renewal examines the current state of the Irish Trade Union movement, the reasons for its decline and how it must re-imagine itself as a force capable of rolling back the frontiers of capital if it is to rally a new generation of workers to the cause of labour.

This book sets out to provide a scholarly analysis of money and capital, the institutional economic class interests that exist in Ireland, and alternatives to same in the spheres of paid labour and social reproduction. In essence it is a political work in that it picks a side in the debate over these issues.

This book, written during Ireland's decade of centenaries, draws on the aims of the Sireacht series to re-imagine commemoration

This book is a critique of the public sphere, both as the centrepiece of some liberal theory about political communications, and as a description of actually existing media practice in Ireland and beyond - in traditional commercial news media and in social media.

As a figure of thought, the concept of freedom tends to shuttle between abstraction and ideal. Located within the realm of lived experience however, freedom is invariably forged from context-specific constraints.