MOBILISING CLASSICS: Reading radical writing in Ireland -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Orla O'Donovan and Fiona Dukelow -- 1. Thomas Paine's: The Rights of Man: Bernadette McAliskey -- 2. William Thompson's: Practical Education for the South of Ireland: Eileen O'Carroll -- 3. James Connolly's: Labour in Irish History: Fintan Lane -- 4. Robert Tressell's: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: Rosie Meade -- 5. Simone de Beauvoir's: The Second Sex: Fiona Dukelow -- 6. Thomas Szasz's: The Myth of Mental Illness: Orla McDonnell -- 7. Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton's: Black Power: The Politics of Liberation: Robbie McVeigh -- 8. Paulo Freire's: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Mark Garavan -- 9. Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality: Orla O'Donovan -- 10. Adrienne Rich's: On Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: Tina O'Toole -- 11. The Brundtland Committee's: Our Common Future: Hilary Tovey -- Concluding remarks: Fiona Dukelow and Orla O'Donovan -- Bibliography -- Index.
Revisiting classic texts by writers such as Simone de Beauvoir, James Connolly and Paulo Freire, this book provides a series of rich reflections on the interaction between radical ideas and political action in Ireland.