Dr Gary Murphy
 

SELECT PUBLICATIONS






Books

The Lemass Era:  Politics and Society in the Ireland of Seán Lemass, co-edited with Brian Girvin, UCD Press, 2005, pp.xx + 265

Economic Realignment and the Politics of EEC Entry, Ireland 1948-1972, Maunsel Press, Bethesda, 2003, pp.xiv + 279.

Articles
 
Le caractère versatile de la gouvernance en Irlande, Télescope, the journal of Ecole nationale d'administration publique in Quebec, vol.13, no.2, 2007, pp.22-36.

Assessing the relationship between neoliberalism and political corruption: The Fianna Fáil – Progressive Democrat Coalition, 1997 – 2006, Irish Political Studies, vol. 21 no.2, 2006, pp. 297-317.

'Towards a Corporate State? Sean Lemass and the Realignment of Interest Groups in the Policy process 1948-1964' , Administration, vol. 51, no. 1-2, 2003, a special edition of Administration entitled  'Ireland Develops: Administration and Social Policy 1953-2003',  bringing together a selection of the best articles published in the journal over its 50 year history.
'Mr. Roosevelt is guilty…': Theodore Roosevelt and the crusade for constitutionalism, 1910 -1912', Journal of American Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, December 2002, pp.441-457

The Irish Government, the National Farmers Association and the European Economic Community, 1955-1964, New Hibernia Review, vol. 6, no. 4, 2002, pp. 68-84.

From guild to union: the evolution of the Dublin Bricklayers’ Society, 1670-1888 in Saothar, Irish Journal of Labour History, Vol. 26, 2001. pp.17-24. (With John Hogan, DCU).

Sovereignty and the question of Irish entry to the EEC, New Evidence from the Archives, in Irish Studies in International Affairs, Vo.12, 2001, pp.191-202.

'A Culture of Sleaze: Political Corruption and the Irish Body Politic 1997-2000', in Irish Political Studies, vol. 15, 2000, pp. 193-200.

 ‘Towards the Corporate State: Sean Lemass and the realignment of interest groups in  the  policy process, 1948-1964’ in Administration, Spring, 1999, pp. 86-102.

The 1997 General Election in the Republic of Ireland’, in Irish Political Studies, Vol. 13, 1998, pp. 127-134.

Government, Interest Groups and the Irish Move to Europe, 1957-1963’ in Irish Studies in International Affairs, Vol. 8, 1997, pp. 57-68.

Fostering a Spurious Progeny: The Trade Union Movement and Europe, 1956-1964’ in Saothar, Irish Journal of Labour History, Vol. 21, 1996, pp. 61-70.

'Back to the Constitution: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Republican Party Division, 1910-1912’ in Irish Journal of American Studies, Vol. 4. 1995, pp.109-126

 
Book Chapters
 
‘From economic nationalism to European Union’ in Brian Girvin and Gary Murphy (eds.), The Lemass Era:  Politics and Society in the Ireland of Seán Lemass, UCD Press, 2005, pp.28-48.

‘Whose Ireland? The Lemass Era’ in Brian Girvin and Gary Murphy (eds.), The Lemass Era:  Politics and Society in the Ireland of Seán Lemass, UCD Press, 2005, pp.1-11 (with Brian Girvin).

Payments for No Political Response? Political Corruption and Tribunals of Inquiry in Ireland, 1991-2003 in John Garrard and James Newell (eds.), Scandals in Past and Contemporary Politics, Manchester University Press, 2005, 

‘Ireland’ in Transparency International, Global Corruption Report 2005, Pluto Press, 2005, pp.162-165.

Interest groups in the policy process’ in John Coakley & Michael Gallagher (eds.) Politics in the Republic of Ireland, 4th ed., Routledge, 2004, pp.352-383

'An exercise that had to be undertaken': the Marshall Plan and the genesis of Ireland's involvement in European integration, in Till Geiger and Michael Kennedy (eds),  Ireland, Europe and the Marshall Plan, Four Courts Press, 2004, pp. 81-101.

The Background to the election in Michael Gallagher, Michael Marsh and Paul Mitchell eds, How Ireland Voted 2002, Palgrave, 2003, pp. 1-20.

Pluralism and the politics of morality in Maura Adshead and Michelle Millar (eds), Public Administration and Public Policy in Ireland: Theory and Methods,  Routledge, 2003, pp. 20-36.

'The view from Merrion Square: the American Embassy in Ireland, 1956-66' in Hiram Morgan (ed) Information, media and power through the ages, UCD Press, 2001, pp.245-258.

‘"A wider perspective": Ireland’s view of Western Europe in the 1950s’, in Michael Kennedy & Joseph Skelly (eds.) Irish Foreign Policy, 1919-1969: From independence to internationalism, Four Courts Press,  2000, pp. 247-264.

‘The role of interest groups in the policy process’ in John Coakley & Michael Gallagher (eds.) Politics in the Republic of Ireland, 3rd ed., Routledge, 1999, pp.271-293.

  Other Publications Review of Tom Garvin, Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so poor for so long?;  Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland, 1858-1928; The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics; 1922: The Birth of Irish Democracy, Irish Political Studies, vol. 20: no 3, 2005, pp.367-369.

Review of Mervyn O’Driscoll, Ireland, Germany and the Nazis: Politics and Diplomacy, 1919-1939, Irish Political Studies, vol.19: no 1, 2004, pp.106-109.

Review of Robert Brennan, Ireland Standing Firm and Eamon de Valera: A Memoir, Richard H.Rupp (ed.), Irish Political Studies, vol.18: no 2, 2003, pp.107-108. 

Review of Rosin Doherty, Ireland, Neutrality and European Security Integration, Political Studies Review, 2003, available online at www.politicalstudies.org/review

Review of James Dunkerley, Americana: The Americas in the world about 1850, The Recorder: The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, vol.16, no.2, 2003, pp.164-167.

Review of Brian Girvin, From Union to Union: Nationalism, Democracy and Religion in Ireland – Act of Union to EU, Irish Political Studies, vol.18, no.1, 2003, pp.133-134.

‘Are they all corrupt?’ Review of Neil Collins and Mary O’Shea, Understanding Corruption in Irish Politics, in Magill magazine, March 2001.

Review of Michael Marsh and Paul Mitchell (eds.), How Ireland Voted 1997, in Irish Political Studies, Vol. 14, 1999, pp. 187-189.

Towards A Corporate State: Seán Lemass and the realignment of interest groups in the policy process, 1948-1964’ Dublin City University Business School Research Paper, 23, 1996-1997, pp. 1-14.

Ireland, the EEC and NATO, 1957-1964,’ in Nicholas Rees & Ben Tonra (eds.), Aspects of Europe, Conference Proceedings, Irish Association for Contemporary European Studies, 1997, pp. 1-12

‘Continental drift bypassed Ireland’ in 40th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. A supplement with The Irish Times, 25 Mar. 1997.
 
 

Papers Presented
‘The man who built the house, knocked it down and built a different type of house: Seán Lemass and the reorientation of post war Irish politics’, to the Department of History, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, 13 February 2007.

‘Shaping and maintaining a research agenda in the social sciences’ to School of Business, Waterford Institute of Technology, 23 November 2006.

‘Ireland’s applications to the EEC, 1961-1972, an oral history perspective’ to History Seminar Series, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, 23 October 2006.

‘ “How is the electorate disposed towards the EEC?”: Irish public opinion and the 1972 EEC referendum’  to the Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, Cork, 20-22 October 2006 (with Niamh Puirseil, Trinity College, Dublin).

‘Rewards of High Public Office in Ireland:  Matching Rewards in a Booming Economy’ to the workshop on ‘The Rewards of High Public Office’, European Consortium for Political Research, Joint Sessions of Workshops, Nicosia, Cyprus, 20-25 April 2006 (with Eoin O’Malley, Dublin City University).

‘Does neoliberalism deter political corruption? The Fianna Fáil – Progressive Democrat Coalition in Ireland 1997 – 2005’ to the Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, Belfast 21-23 October 2005.

‘“Seeking Brendan’s Mast”: Seán Lemass and the move from Economic Nationalism to European Union’ to The Long Road to Europe: Ireland and European Cooperation conference, Department of History UCC, 8 October 2005.

Assessing tribunals of inquiry as accurate barometers of political corruption in Ireland, to the Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, London, 12 February 2004.

Political Corruption or merely Political Scandal? The Flood and Moriarty tribunals of inquiry' to the American Conference for Irish Studies, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis/St. Paul, 4-8 June 2003

'We fully realise what the community is: Sean Lemass and the politics of EEC entry',  to the American Irish Historical Society, New York City, 30 May 2003 

'From Rome to Nice: Irish Sovereignty Revisited', to the Ameican Conference for Irish Studies, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 5-9 June 2002. 

'Dublin's view of Paris and Rome': The Irish Response to Early European Integration', to the Dublin University History Society, 29 November, 2001

'Marketing a Referendum: The Role of Interest Groups, Political Parties and Governments in Irish Referenda since 1983', to the Fourth International Political Marketing Conference, Dublin City University, 6-8 September, 2001.

Government on the web: How the internet has revolutionised the teaching of government and politics' to the International Partnership of Business Schools international jury, Lancaster University, 6-7 July 2001.

'Payments for no political response': Political Corruption and Tribunals of Inquiry in Ireland, 1991-2001', to 'Political Scandals Past and Present’ International conference, European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, 21 - 23 June 2001

' The Torturous Path revisited: new evidence on the Irish Applications to join the EEC, 1961-1972', to research seminar in contemporary Irish history, Trinity College, Dublin, 31 January 2001

'Political Contributions or Political Corruption? Payments to politicians in Ireland in the 1990s' to the Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, 22 January 2001.

'Crony Capitalism and the Celtic Tiger: Does the Irish Body Politic need cleansing?' to the Political Studies Association of Ireland, Annual Conference, 15 Oct. 2000. (With Prof. Colm Kearney, DCU)

' "Bismarck if he was dead …" the importance of a knowledge of history for business students" to the International Partnership of Business Schools international jury Northeastern University, Boston, 7 July 2000

'Guardian of the Nation's Finances: Sean MacEntee and the Stability of the Irish State' to the American Conference for Irish Studies, Annual Conference, 27 June 2000

‘The View from Merrion Square: The American Embassy in Ireland, 1956-1966’ to the biennial conference of historians in Ireland, 20-23 May 1999, University College, Cork

‘"Persuading the Americans"?: The Irish administrative and political response to Marshall Aid’ to a conference of the Irish Association for Contemporary European Studies, "The Marshall Plan and Ireland", 29 January 1999.

‘The Road to April 10: How the Northern Ireland Peace Deal was brokered’, Paper presented to Department of Political Science, Purdue University, Indiana, 21-22 Apr. 1998.

‘The importance of the Constitution in the political philosophy of Theodore Roosevelt: The case of 1910-1912’, to the Theodore Roosevelt and the Dawn of the "American Century" conference, Department of History, Siena College, 18-19 Apr. 1998.

‘"But there are more important things": The politics of Fianna Fail’s economic policy, 1948-1964’, to the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Annual Conference, 20 Sept. 1997.

‘Ireland, the EEC and NATO. 1957-1964,’ to a conference of the Irish Association for Contemporary European Studies, "Aspects of Europe’, 11 Apr. 1997.

‘The Politics of Economic Interdependence with Europe, Ireland 1957-1963’, to the Irish Historical Society, 11 Mar. 1997.

‘Government, Interest Groups and the Move to Europe, Ireland 1956-64’, to the Royal Irish Academy’s National Committee for the Study of International Affairs, 5 Dec. 1996

‘Financial Ideology and the Politics of Economic Realignment, Ireland 1948-1964’ to the Political Studies Association of Ireland, Annual Conference, 19 Oct. 1996.

‘Writing a New History of Political Economy, Ireland 1948-1964’ to the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Annual Conference, 22 Sept. 1996.

‘"We Battle for the Lord", Theodore Roosevelt and the Importance of Religion for the Progressive Party’ to Irish Association for American Studies, Annual Conference, 30 Mar. 1996.

‘"Back to the Constitution": Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Republican Party Division in the Progressive Era’ to Irish Association for American Studies, Annual Conference, 1 Apr. 1995.