When Ideas Matter
Speeches for an Ethical Republic
1st Edition
Published on 20. September 2016
464 pages
978-1-78497-826-6 (ISBN)
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The President of Ireland since 2011, when he was elected by a final tally of almost 57% of the votes, Michael D. Higgins has used his time in office to setout a vision of what he calls 'an ethical Republic'.
In a series of remarkable and urgent speeches, which are anything but the bland commentaries of a ceremonial head of state, Michael D. Higgins has urged his fellow citizens to consider what makes the good life. He has asked how human rights, an active and empowered citizenry, women's equality and the right to health and a life free of corrosive anxiety might be achieved. He has highlighted the plight of refugees. And he has criticised the ways in which work is becoming dehumanised.
In a series of remarkable and urgent speeches, which are anything but the bland commentaries of a ceremonial head of state, Michael D. Higgins has urged his fellow citizens to consider what makes the good life. He has asked how human rights, an active and empowered citizenry, women's equality and the right to health and a life free of corrosive anxiety might be achieved. He has highlighted the plight of refugees. And he has criticised the ways in which work is becoming dehumanised.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78497-826-6 (9781784978266)
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Michael D. Higgins has been President of Ireland since 2011. Born in Limerick, he was educated at University College Galway, where he later taught sociology and political science. He was Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993 to 1997.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About When Ideas Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Prelude
- Inaugural Speech
- A Toast
- St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry
- Migration, Diaspora and the Famine
- Liverpool and Its Irish Migrants
- Of Migrants and Memory
- Reflecting on the Gorta Mór: The Great Famine of Ireland
- Culture
- Patrick Kavanagh and the Migratory Experience
- Remembering and Imagining Irishness
- John Hewitt Summer School
- Culture and Transformation
- Towards an Ethical Foreign Policy
- Of Memory and Testimony
- Remembering Kader Asmal
- The Future of Diplomacy in Conditions of Global Change
- To Members of the 47th Infantry Group, United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
- Preparing for the Global Humanitarian Summit
- On Receiving an Award from the Republic of Chile
- Defending and Renewing Democracy
- The Future of Parliaments
- The Challenge of Human Rights for Contemporary Law, Politics and Economics
- The Human Rights Discourse: Its Importance and Its Challenges
- Defining Europe in the Year of the European Citizen
- Renewing Economics: Towards A New Political Economy
- Public Intellectuals and the Universities
- The Future of Work
- An Adequate Economic Discourse for the Europe of our Grandchildren
- Drawing Water from the Same Well
- The Irish Launch of the European Year of Development
- Recovering Possibilities
- The President of Ireland's Ethics Initiative National Seminar
- The European Union
- Remembering the Past: Commemoration and Forgiveness
- Remembering the 1913 Lockout
- At a Symposium Entitled 'Remembering 1916'
- Address at an Ecumenical Service to Commemorate the Children Who Died During the Easter Rising
- To the Relatives of Those Who Participated in the Easter Rising
- The Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation
- At the Dedication of the Cross of Sacrifice
- Of Myth-Making and Ethical Remembering
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- About Michael D. Higgins
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
