![]() | Tom Garvin Tom Christopher Garvin (born 1944) is an Irish political scientist and historian. He is Professor Emeritus of Politics in University College Dublin. He retired from lecturing duties in August 2008. He is an alumnus of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Garvin is a graduate of UCD with a BA in History and Politics and an MA in Politics. His PhD was awarded by the University of Georgia in 1974 for his thesis “Political parties in a Dublin constituency: a behavioural analysis”. [1] He was a central figure in establishing the Political Studies Association of Ireland in 1982, and his professional reputation saw him win rapid promotion in UCD, where he became Professor of Politics in 1991. In that capacity, he also served as Head of Department until 2005. His academic career was marked by productive sabbaticals in the USA (where he spent extended periods in the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC; Colgate University; Mount Holyoke College; the University of Georgia; and, as Burns Professor, Boston College). His academic distinction was marked by his election as a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2003. Garvin’s academic output includes 60 articles in journals, chapters in books, and publications of similar type; six books, with a further two forthcoming; two edited volumes; and a range of publications of other kinds. The best-known of his books form a sequence dealing with successive themes in the emergence of modern Ireland: "The evolution of Irish nationalist politics" (1981, 1983); "Nationalist revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928" (1987); "1922: the birth of Irish democracy" (1996); and "Preventing the future: why was Ireland so poor for so long" (2004). Tom Garvin retired on 1 September 2008 after working for 41 years in what is now the UCD School of Politics and International Relations. Source: Wikipedia.org |
This book examines the birth of the Irish state, and sets it in its European historical context. The process of democratic nation-making reached full fruition, while a vicious civil war was raging, ostensibly fought over ...Quick View
An almost mythical narrative has grown up around Sean Lemass and his career as taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland from 1959 to 1966. This scholarly and accessible new perspective contains the myth within the facts. Le ...Quick View
The present-day Republic of Ireland was created by a revolutionary elite which developed between 1858 and 1914. This book analyses the social origins of the revolutionary politicians who became the rulers of Ireland afte ...Quick View
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As heard on RTE Radio's Summer Days, political scientist Tom Garvin looks at Ireland's public policy from 1920 to 1970, which, he argues, left large numbers of young people without preparation for life in the modern worl ...Quick View
The 1950s was a decade of international economic recovery after the disasters of World War II. There was just one exception. The Irish economy actually contracted in those years, and over four hundred thousand people emi ...Quick View
Dissecting Irish Politics: Essays in Honour of Brian Farrell
By: Tom Garvin , Maurice Manning , Richard Sinnott
24 May 2004 - University College Dublin Press
This volume contains essays on Irish politics.Essays by leading academic, political and media figures in honour of Brian Farrell, the well-known political interviewer and former member of the Department of Politics, in c ...Quick View
By: Patrick Sarsfield O'Hegarty , Tom Garvin , Fearghal McGarry
27 Oct 2015 - University College Dublin Press
The Centenary Classics series examines the change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionary period. The Victory of Sinn Fein is an eyewitness account of events in Ireland from the Eas ...Quick View
By: Joseph Johnston , Roy Johnston , Tom Garvin , Fearghal McGarry
01 Oct 2015 - University College Dublin Press
The Centenary Classics series examines the change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionary period. Civil War in Ulster analyses the events leading up to the arming of the Orangemen w ...Quick View
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The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual
By: Tom Garvin
14 Mar 2016 - Irish Academic Press Ltd
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The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual
By: Tom Garvin
14 Mar 2016 - Irish Academic Press Ltd
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