The Desmond Greaves School
Desmond Greaves

23rd DESMOND GREAVES SUMMER SCHOOL 2011

A weekend of political thought and discussion

from

Friday to Sunday, 9-11 September

at

The Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

2011


Archive:

2010
2009


Programme

Bookings and Admission

Friday September 9th at 7:30

The international economic crisis – making the periphery pay


Fred Magdoff is a professor emeritus at the University of Vermont and a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. He has written extensively on the financial crisis.

Chair

Cllr. Catherine Connolly, Galway City Council and barrister.
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Saturday September 10th at 11:00

Is Ireland a Democratic Republic?


Sinead Pentony is Head of Policy at the Think Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC).
Kevin McCorry is a solicitor and former Organiser of NICRA.
Harry Browne is a Lecturer in the School of Media, DIT and a former journalist with The Irish Times.

Chair

Fionnula Ui Brogain, trade union organiser.
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Saturday September 10th at 14:30

Ireland and the Eurozone crisis


Anthony Coughlan is Secretary of The National Platform EU Research and Information Centre.
Fabio de Masi is a consultant to the Chief Economist of DIE LINKE in the German Bundestag, Michael Schlecht.

Chair

Karen Devine, lecturer and journalist.
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Sunday September 11th at 11:00

An all Ireland Economic Area: Does it make sense?


Peadar Toibin TD is Sinn Fein TD for Meath West.
Peter Bunting is Assistant General Secretary of the ICTU with responsibility for Northern Ireland.
John Bradley , former Research Professor at the ESRI, who is an international research consultant in the areas of economic development strategies.

Chair

Robert Ballagh, President of the Ireland Institute and artist.
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Sunday September 11th at 14:30

Where is contemporary capitalism going?


Richard Dowthwaite is co-founder of Feasta (the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability).
Kieran Allen is Senior Lecturer at the School of Sociology UCD.
Mary Cullen , Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies TCD and former Senior Lecturer in Modern History at NUI Maynooth.

Chair

Catherine Murphy TD.
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Bookings and Admission

Full School €25
Individual sessions €6
Students/unwaged half-price.

Enquiries

Frank Keoghan, Summer School Director.
25 Shanowen Crescent,
Dublin 9.
Telephone 01-8423076
Mobile 087-2308330

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