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News
As it becomes available, you can find here brief news items from the PSAI such as details of upcoming PSAI events, information on how PSAI can support its members, prizes and new publications by PSAI members.
PSAI Teaching and Learning Award 2011
The winner of the award for 2011 is Dr Brendan Flynn, NUI Galway for his contribution to teaching excellence in Politics. Further details are available here
PSAI Annual Conference
The 2011 Annual Conference was hosted by University College Dublin and took place on 21-23 October 2011 in the Royal Irish Academy and Newman House in Dublin city centre. The headline theme for this conference was "Political Reform in Ireland". Further details, including programme guide are available here.
PSAI Basil Chubb Prize
The 2011 Basil Chubb prize for best PhD thesis at an Irish university in 2011 has been awarded to Dr. Michael Breen for his thesis 'The Political Logic of IMF Lending and Conditionality'. Michael completed his PhD on the politics of IMF adjustment programmes at University College Dublin.
More details can be found here
The Political Studies Association of Ireland has submitted the response paper below to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment on the current proposal to establish a new Leaving Certificate course in social and political education:
The PSAI offers several schemes designed to support members of the Association:
Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern with the authors of All Politics is Local Dr Liam Weeks and Dr Aodh Quinlivan.
The Brian Farrell book prize 2012
For Best Book Published in Political Science in 2011
The PSAI awards an annual prize for the best book published in political science by a member of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. The prize is awarded each year at the annual conference. The 2011 Brian Farrell Book Prize was awarded to Peter Shirlow, Jonathan Tonge, James McAuley and Catherine McGlynn, for their book 'Abandoning Historical Conflict? Former Political Prisoners and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
The 2012 competition is open to single-authored and jointly-authored books written by PSAI members and published in 2011. Nominations for the book prize are sough each year in May.
A wide range of back issues of PSAI publications are now available for purchase by members. Subject to availability, the following publications can be obtained:
- Days of Blue Loyalty
- How Ireland Voted 1987
- How Ireland Voted 1989
- How Ireland Voted 1992
- Irish Elections 1922-1944: Results and Analysis
- Irish Elections 1948-1977: Results and Analysis - Flyer
- Irish Political Studies Reader
- Politics in the Republic of Ireland, 5th Ed.
- Irish Political Studies (from Volume 2 1987 to Volume 12 1997, plus Volume 14 1999.
Copies of the journal cost €10 each, or 3 issues for €25.
Anyone wishing to find out more or to order publications can contact Michael Courtney at courtnmj@tcd.ie.