Defining Events

Rosie Meade and Fiona Dukelow are Lecturers in the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Cork

• 1. Introduction – Rosie Meade and Fiona Dukelow2. The birth of Indymedia.ie: a critical space for social movements in Ireland – Margaret Gillan and Laurence Cox3. In the way of development: Tara, the M3 and the Celtic Tiger – Conor Newman4. Carts, horses and carriages: love and (same-sex) marriage in the 21st century – Angela O’Connell5. Making ‘race’ an issue in the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum – Steve Garner6. ‘The centre of everything’: Ireland at the Dundrum Town Centre – Denis Linehan7. ‘Taking back the neighbourhood’: the introduction of ASBOs – Paul Michael Garrett8. All that shimmers is not gold: the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission and garda accountability – Vicky Conway9. State to the rescue: the bank guarantee and Ireland’s financialised neo-liberal growth model – Fiona Dukelow10. Worlds turned upside down? The older people’s uprising 2008 – Rosie Meade11. Cutting back on equality – John Baker, Kathleen Lynch and Judy Walsh12. The Ryan Report: reformatory and industrial schools and twentieth century Ireland – Eoin O’Sullivan13. Gay in the GAA: the challenge of Dónal Óg Cusack’s ‘coming out’ to heteronormativity in contemporary Irish culture and society – Debbie Ging and Marcus FreeIndex