Social movements and Ireland is an innovative new text which aims to provide a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective action in Irish society.

Linda Connolly is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork. Niamh Hourigan is Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork

Introduction
1. Theories of social movements: a review of the field - Linda Connolly
2. An analysis of the Irish suffrage movement using new social movement theory - Louise Ryan
3. The outcomes and consequences of second wave feminism in Ireland - Linda Connolly
4. The coming-out of the gay movement in Ireland 1970-80 - Paul Ryan
5. Moving the immovable: the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland - Jim Smyth
6. Movement outcomes and Irish language protest - Niamh Hourigan
7. Relocating protest: globalisation and the institutionalisation of organized environmentalism - Gerard Mullally
8. New movements in old places? The alternative food movement in rural Ireland - Hilary Tovey
9. Anti-racism in Ireland - Alana Lentin
10. News from nowhere: the movement of movements in Ireland - Laurence Cox