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Ireland's Economic Crisis - Time to Act; Essays from MacGill Summer School 2009

‘Essays from over 40 leading Irish thinkers at the MacGill Summer School 2009’

Joe Mulholland and Finbarr Bradley

Ireland’s economic crisis requires a radical transformation in policymaking. In this volume, political, industrial, academic, trade union and business leaders and commentators tell the story of the Irish economy and its rise and fall. More important, taking into account the strengths that Ireland still has, they look to the future and plot the path towards recovery. Contributions at Glenties range from policy, vision and context to practical suggestions on how the country can emerge from its crisis. The economic paradise may be lost but it is the thrust of these essays that a realistic development path can be sustained - provided the right policies are implemented fearlessly, courageously and with integrity.

Martina Anderson MLA

Dr Peter Bacon

Prof. Fridrik Baldursson

David Begg

Dan Boyle

Dr Finbarr Bradley

Dara Calleary TD

Mary Cloake

Mary Coughlan TD

Simon Coveney TD

Lucinda Creighton TD

Paul Dowling

Alan Dukes

Michael Fitzgerald

Frank Flannery

Jeremy Gilbert

Eamon Gilmore TD

Dermot Gleeson SC

Brian Hayes TD

Prof. John Hegarty

Prof. Patrick Honohan

George Lee TD

Brian Lenihan TD

Fiach Mac Conghail

Pádraig MacLochlainn

Dr Martin Mansergh TD

Dr Diarmuid Martin

Mícheál Martin TD

Annette Hughes

Enda Kenny TD

Angela Kerins

Colm McCarthy

Danny McCoy

Patricia McKenna

Michael McLoone

Peter McLoone

Pádraig McManus

David Murphy

Martin Murphy

Jim O’Hara

David O’Sullivan

Michael O’Sullivan

Prof. Rowena Pecchenino

Ruairí Quinn TD

Dr Don Thornhill

Brendan Tuohy

Prof. Karl Whelan

Noel Whelan SC

Editor Biographies:

Joe Mulholland has been Director of the MacGill Summer School for most of its 29 years. With a local committee in Glenties, he founded the School in 1981. Born in Donegal, he was educated in Donegal, the UK and France. He joined Radio Telefís Éireann in 1970 and has held senior positions in the organization as well as being several times an award-winning producer of television documentaries. He has been a regulator contributor to the French media including the influential daily, Le Monde, and was Chairman of the News Group of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) 1993-7. He was Chairman of Radio Television Kosovo(RTK) 2001-2. He is currently Chairman of the National College of Art & Design (NCAD). He was one of the recipients of an AIB Donegal Person of the Year award in 2002 and last year was elected Donegal Person of the Year 2008-9.

Finbarr Bradley is a former professor at DCU, NUI Maynooth and UCD. Educated at North Monastery, Cork, UCC (electrical engineering), Syracuse University (MBA) and New York University (PhD), he manages innovation learning communities in several Irish and international companies. As professor of finance at DCU, Finbarr developed key graduate programme for IFSC executives. He set up the innovative Centre, Fiontar and an Irish-medium degree in finance, computing and languages. He is former professor in the Economics Department at NUI Maynooth and visiting professor at Smurfit Business School, UCD. He taught at University of Michigan, Fordham University and Helsinki School of Economics and Co-authored the book, Capitalising on Culture, Competing on Difference [Blackhall Publishing, 2008] which focuses on innovation, learning and sense of place in a globalising Ireland.

Reviews

"....this was a seminar worthy of Harvard, Yale or Oxbridge"

Déaglan de Bréadún, The Irish Times

ISBN 978-1-904505-43-3

Cost €20.00

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