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About the Author
Michael D. Higgins is an Irish politician, poet, sociologist, and broadcaster who has served as the ninth President of Ireland since November 2011. He was also a senator for the National University of Ireland and was the President of the Labour Party from 2003 to 2011, until he resigned following his election as President of Ireland. He made the first state visit by an Irish president to the United Kingdom in April 2014. Professor of European Cultural Studies at the University of Limerick and has been a driving force in European Studies at his institution for three decades. NIHE Limerick was set up in 1972 and has remained a major centre for European Studies in Ireland ever since. Prof. Fischer is Course Director of its undergraduate programme in European Studies which is among the longest-established such programmes in the world. Dr habil. Fergal Lenehan (BA and MA UCD, PhD Leipzig, Habilitation Jena) has been lecturing in Intercultural Communications and European Studies at the Friedrich-Schiller Universitat Jena (Germany) for over a decade. His comparative study of intellectual discourses on Europe in Ireland, Britain and Germany (Trier 2014) is a key contribution to this under-researched field.
Reviews
Michael D. Higgins writes brilliantly about the idea of "home" in an age of mass-migration, when even children of the middle class can scarcely afford to purchase a house. But, above all, he implies that Anderson's critique be answered - by a Europe which, no longer constructed from above, is rebuilt from below. From the street itself. -- Declan Kiberd * Hot Press *
The book seems to be an extraordinary kaleidoscope of ideas enmeshed in a dazzling torrent of words that could threaten to drown the reader. However as the book progresses, so does the understanding of the reader and an understanding of what the European Union can offer us, in theory at least, emerges. -- Des Kenny * Galway Advertiser *
Book Information
ISBN 9781843517948
Author Michael D. Higgins
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint The Lilliput Press Ltd
Publisher The Lilliput Press Ltd