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Item type: Item , Landmark High Court judgment on suspended sentences shows urgent need for government (Pre-published version)(Irish Independent, 2016) Hourigan, NiamhItem type: Item , Heritage, crime and inequality: understanding Limerick in the post-Celtic Tiger context (Pre-published version)(The Heritage Council [Ireland], 2011) Hourigan, NiamhDebates 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 specific challenges to heritage development. In Limerick, the most prominent heritage site in the city, King John’s Castle is located in an area adjacent to one of the most deprived electoral districts in the Irish state (St. Mary’s Park). This part of Limerick city also features the strong presence of some of the city’s most notorious criminal gangs.Item type: Item , Democratic breakdown, inequality and populism in the 21st Century: line-cutters, ladder-pullers and unreachable elites (Pre-published version)(MacGill Summer School, 2018) Hourigan, NiamhWhen 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 by decades of neo-liberal economic policy were contributing to the current populist surge on the left and the right. The United States and the United Kingdom, where the recent populist surge has been most pronounced, were the first societies where neo-liberal economic policy was applied for a sustained period on a grand scale (Harvey 2005). The history of neo-liberal thought demonstrates that those who developed these ideas were uneasy with democracy and felt it should be limited. Secondly, they recognised that deepening inequality would be an inevitable outcome of the application of their ideas and were willing to live with the societal consequences of that inequality (Dardot and Laval, 2013). In teaching graduate courses on globalization, I often make the distinction between social science understandings of globalization which focus on connectedness – of people, money, media, ideas – and neo-liberal globalization – a specific economic and political project which has been enacted quite deliberately by governments and trans-national institutions influenced by think-tanks and universities since the 1970s. I think both forms of globalization have created sets of pressures which have contributed to the populist surge which we are witnessing.Item type: Item , Why we must pay attention to Ireland’s spring of discontent (Pre-published version)(The Irish Times, 2017) Hourigan, NiamhConcerns over downward social mobility mirror conditions behind Brexit and Trump.Item type: Item , Third level funding and emigration(Irish Independent, 2016) Hourigan, NiamhItem type: Item , Law and Order meets Love/Hate in the battle to fix our gangland culture(Irish Independent, 2016) Hourigan, NiamhItem type: Item , Why there's a cute hoor in all of us (Pre-published version)(Irish Independent, 2015) Hourigan, NiamhWas our tradition of 'looking after our own' to blame for the banking crisis?Item type: Item , Role of community is key to understanding Irish water protest confrontations (Pre-published version)(The Irish Times, 2015) Hourigan, NiamhWill confrontational campaigners provoke Government into increasingly repressive responses to their actions?Item type: Item , Aspiration and actuality: childhood inequality and the legacy of 1916(Barnardos, 2015) Hourigan, NiamhAs 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 look at those who were involved in the Rising reveals a disparate group. United as they were in fighting for Ireland’s freedom, the divisions of class, religion, gender and citizenship all contributed to shaping their differing experiences of the Rising and its aftermath.Item type: Item , The Leaving Certificate 'leaves' too many people behind(Irish Examiner, 2014) Hourigan, NiamhItem type: Item , Cutbacks are as pernicious as hard drugs(Irish Examiner, 2014) Hourigan, NiamhItem type: Item , How state policy helped create a fertile gangland breeding ground(Irish Independent, 2013) Hourigan, NiamhItem type: Item , Can TG4 recapture some good feeling about Irish? (Pre-published version)(The Irish Times, 2012) Hourigan, NiamhTG4 aims to give viewers another eye on Ireland and its language – has it succeeded, or does it perpetuate hang-ups about Irish?Item type: Item , Money-lending, intimidation and the consequences of financial exclusion (Pre-published version)(thejournal.ie, 2011) Hourigan, NiamhThese 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.Item type: Item , Limerick’s estates of fear(Irish Examiner, 2011) Hourigan, NiamhBreaking the bonds of poverty, drugs and crime. Community violence in Limerick must be understood in order to be solved.Item type: Item , Understanding anti-social behaviour(Irish Independent, 2010) Hourigan, Niamh