In May 2014 Dr Bill Kissane, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, conducted an interview with Eunan O’ Halpin on behalf of the academic forum, H-Nationalism.
Professor Eunan O’Halpin is the Bank of Ireland Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin, and is the director of the Centre of Contemporary Irish History. He is also a founding co-editor of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project , and is a member of the expert advisory group formed to advise the Irish government on the ‘decade of commemoration’ from 1912 to 1923. Before his appointment at TCD, O’Halpin was Professor of Government at Dublin City University.
In the interview Dr Kissane and Professor O’Halpin discuss the current economic crisis facing the Irish state, growth of Sinn Féin, the issue of ‘clientelism’ (even in the big cities), and the state of the state generally.
