Description
Book SynopsisSocial movements and Ireland is an innovative new text which aims to provide a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective action in Irish society.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Theories of social movements: a review of the field - Linda Connolly
2. An analysis of the Irish suffrage movement using new social movement theory - Louise Ryan
3. The outcomes and consequences of second wave feminism in Ireland - Linda Connolly
4. The coming-out of the gay movement in Ireland 1970-80 - Paul Ryan
5. Moving the immovable: the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland - Jim Smyth
6. Movement outcomes and Irish language protest - Niamh Hourigan
7. Relocating protest: globalisation and the institutionalisation of organized environmentalism - Gerard Mullally
8. New movements in old places? The alternative food movement in rural Ireland - Hilary Tovey
9. Anti-racism in Ireland - Alana Lentin
10. News from nowhere: the movement of movements in Ireland - Laurence Cox
