• Rule-breaking, inequality and globalization: the trans-nationalization of Irish criminal gangs 

  Hourigan, Niamh (Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis, 2016)

  This article seeks to situate the emergence of transnational criminal gang networks in Ireland within broader debates about the impact of globalization on Irish society (Coulter and Coleman 2003; Kuhling and Keohane 2007; ...

• Landmark High Court judgment on suspended sentences shows urgent need for government (Pre-published version) 

  Hourigan, Niamh (Irish Independent, 2016)

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• Austerity, resistance and changing values in Ireland: social movement outcomes and political polarization 

  Hourigan, Niamh (RIA [Royal Irish Academy], 2018)

• 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 ...

• Why we must pay attention to Ireland’s spring of discontent (Pre-published version) 

  Hourigan, Niamh (The Irish Times, 2017)

  Concerns over downward social mobility mirror conditions behind Brexit and Trump.

• Third level funding and emigration 

  Hourigan, Niamh (Irish Independent, 2016)

• Law and Order meets Love/Hate in the battle to fix our gangland culture 

  Hourigan, Niamh (Irish Independent, 2016)

• Why there's a cute hoor in all of us (Pre-published version) 

  Hourigan, Niamh (Irish Independent, 2015)

  Was our tradition of 'looking after our own' to blame for the banking crisis?

• Role of community is key to understanding Irish water protest confrontations (Pre-published version) 

  Hourigan, Niamh (The Irish Times, 2015)

  Will confrontational campaigners provoke Government into increasingly repressive responses to their actions?

• Review of 'Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain: Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives' Sarah Pickard ed. (Pre-published version) 

  Hourigan, Niamh (Sage, 2015)

• 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 ...

• The Leaving Certificate 'leaves' too many people behind 

  Hourigan, Niamh (Irish Examiner, 2014)

• 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)

• How state policy helped create a fertile gangland breeding ground 

  Hourigan, Niamh (Irish Independent, 2013)

• 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?

• 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.

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