Browsing by Author "Hourigan, Niamh"
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Aspiration and actuality: childhood inequality and the legacy of 1916
Hourigan, Niamh (Barnardos, 2015)As we enter 2016, the controversies about how best to commemorate the legacy of the Rising have already begun. Already, various groups have claimed to be the true inheritors of the spirit of Proclamation. However, a closer ... -
Audience identification and Raidió na Gaeltachta
Hourigan, Niamh (DIT [Dublin Institute of Technology], 1996)This paper was researched as part of a broader project on the campaigns for Raidió na Gaeltachta and Teillfis na Gaeilge. In the course of this work, I conducted over thirty Interviews with members of each campaign. RTE: ... -
Austerity, resistance and changing values in Ireland: social movement outcomes and political polarization
Hourigan, Niamh (RIA [Royal Irish Academy], 2018) -
Austerity, resistance and social protest in Ireland: movement outcomes
Hourigan, Niamh (RIA [Royal Irish Academy], 2017)The varying protest responses of European societies to structural adjustment programmes imposed by the European Union/European Central Bank/International Monetary Fund after the 2008 banking crisis have been one of the ... -
Can TG4 recapture some good feeling about Irish? (Pre-published version)
Hourigan, Niamh (The Irish Times, 2012)TG4 aims to give viewers another eye on Ireland and its language – has it succeeded, or does it perpetuate hang-ups about Irish? -
The changing face of Irish gangsters (Pre-published version)
Hourigan, Niamh (gardareview.ie, 2014)Niamh Hourigan examines the true nature of gang crime in Ireland today and asks, has anything really changed post-austerity? -
Cutbacks are as pernicious as hard drugs
Hourigan, Niamh (Irish Examiner, 2014) -
Democratic breakdown, inequality and populism in the 21st Century: line-cutters, ladder-pullers and unreachable elites (Pre-published version)
Hourigan, Niamh (MacGill Summer School, 2018)When I began my current research project, which examines as one of its components the underlying causes of contemporary populism, I started with the conviction that both deepening inequality and democratic deficits generated ... -
Heritage, crime and inequality: understanding Limerick in the post-Celtic Tiger context (Pre-published version)
Hourigan, Niamh (The Heritage Council [Ireland], 2011)Debates about social exclusion are central to heritage, because heritage spaces are not blank canvasses. They are spaces where people live and work and when those residents are deeply disadvantaged, their poverty presents ... -
How state policy helped create a fertile gangland breeding ground
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Institutional cultures and development education
Hourigan, Niamh; Campbell, Maria (Centre for Global Education, 2008)In this article, Maria Campbell and Niamh Hourigan outline the findings of a comparative study which interrogated the impact of institutional cultures on two undergraduate development education programmes. The perceptions, ... -
Internalized flexibility and relative deprivation: subjective responses to adult transitions in the Republic of Ireland
Hourigan, Niamh (Anthropology Ireland, 2017)This article presents the preliminary findings of a study which explores attitudes to striving amongst thirty-six young middle class adults aged between 22 and 32 in the Republic of Ireland. It draws heavily on a similar ... -
Juvenile justice, crime and early intervention: key challenges from the Limerick context (Pre-published version)
Hourigan, Niamh (The Probation Service [Ireland], 2012)This paper outlines the findings of a three-year study on criminal gang participation, anti-social behaviour and systems of intimidation within disadvantaged communities in Limerick city. The research is considered in light ... -
Landmark High Court judgment on suspended sentences shows urgent need for government (Pre-published version)
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Law and Order meets Love/Hate in the battle to fix our gangland culture
Hourigan, Niamh (Irish Independent, 2016) -
The Leaving Certificate 'leaves' too many people behind
Hourigan, Niamh (Irish Examiner, 2014) -
Limerick’s estates of fear
Hourigan, Niamh (Irish Examiner, 2011)Breaking the bonds of poverty, drugs and crime. Community violence in Limerick must be understood in order to be solved. -
Mediating diversity: identity, language, and protest in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
Hourigan, Niamh (University of Ottawa Press, 2007) -
Money-lending, intimidation and the consequences of financial exclusion (Pre-published version)
Hourigan, Niamh (thejournal.ie, 2011)These arrests won’t tackle the root causes of crime in Limerick. On Limerick’s estates, crime is being spurred by pressing social problems – and they’re not going away. -
Regulatory disclosure and the Irish financial services ombudsman (Pre-published version)
Hourigan, Niamh; Mulcahy, Mark (Elsevier, 2018)This study investigates the effectiveness regulatory disclosure, specifically the power to name and shame persistently offending financial service providers (FSPs) in its annual reports awarded to the Irish Financial ...