Professor Emeritus of International Politics and Public Policy at the University of Limerick

Dr Peadar Kirby is Professor Emeritus of International Politics and Public Policy at the University of Limerick. He has written books on diverse themes – liberation theology, globalisation, the Irish economy, social justice, and most recently on the need to transform market society in the era of climate change, drawing on the insight of the economist Karl Polanyi. He is fluent in Irish.