Alastair Christie is Professor of Social Work in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland. Brid Featherstone is Professor of Social Work at the Faculty of Health and Social Care, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Suzanne Quin is Dean of Social Science at University College Dublin, Ireland. Trish Walsh is Lecturer in Social Work at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

• Foreword; John Pinkerton1. Revisiting our History post-Celtic Tiger: So What's New?; Caroline McGregor and Suzanne Quin2. Social Work In A 'Globalised' Ireland; Alastair Christie and Trish Walsh3. Putting Ethics at the Heart of Social Work in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland ; Brid Featherstone and Fred Powell4. Child Welfare and Protection in Ireland: Déjà Vu All Over Again; Helen Buckley and Kenneth Burns5. Adoption in Ireland: Exploring the Changing Context; Simone McCaughren and Muireann Ní Raghallaigh6. Fostering the future: A Change Agenda in the Provision of Alternative Care; Valerie O'Brien and Marie Cregan7. Responding to Family Violence: New Challenges and Perspectives; Declan Coogan and Stephanie Holt8. Intellectual Disability: Responding to the Life Course Goals and Challenges for Individuals and their Families; Bairbre Redmond and Anna Jennings9. Responding to Psychosocial Aspects of Illness and Health: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Work; Erma O'Connor and Elaine Wilson10. Opportunities for Social Workers' Critical Engagement in Mental Health Care; Liz Brosnan and Lydia Sapouna11. Reforming, Reframing or Renaming Irish Probation Practice in the 21st Century?; Anthony Cotter and Carmel Halton12. Substance Misuse and Social Work in Ireland: Must Do Better?; Shane Butler and Hilda Loughran13. Growing Old with Dignity: Challenges for Practice in an Ageing Society; Sarah Donnelly and Anne O'Loughlin.

'This is a vibrant and stimulating portrait by a community of social work scholars who analyse pressing social issues in a wide range of contexts with self-critical astuteness and who convincingly put forward their proposals for innovative practice that are of relevance well beyond this island's shores'. Professor Walter Lorenz, Rector, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. 'Crucial considerations are made of historical continuities and ruptures, changing migration patterns and new hierarchies of status and belonging; redefinitions of ethical choices. These fundamental questions are followed by significant chapters on various areas of practice. An excellent and timely collection'. Adrienne Chambon, Professor emerita, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada. 'Social Work in Ireland brings together academics from Ireland and captures the core of social work in its writing. No other text explores, offers the in-depth analysis or poses the critical questions of this book. It is a great achievement'. Professor McColgan, Head of School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies and Professor of Social Work, Ulster University, Northern Ireland. 'This collection of work, by many of Ireland's great social work scholars, captures both the defining features of social work and the important contribution that scholarly activity can make to understanding and responding to many of society's most pressing issues'. Dr John Devaney, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.