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.

Introduction. Orla O'Donovan and Fiona Dukelow1. Opening Up Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man. Bernadette McAliskey2. Opening Up William Thompson's Practical Education for the South of Ireland. Eileen O'Carroll3. Opening Up James Connolly's Labour in Irish History. Fintan Lane4. Opening Up Robert Tressel's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Rosie Meade5. Opening Up Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. Fiona Dukelow6. Opening Up Thomas Szasz's The Myth of Mental Illness. Orla McDonnell7. Opening Up Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton's Black Power: The Politics of Liberation. Robbie McVeigh8. Opening Up Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Mark Garavan9. Opening Up Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality. Orla O'Donovan10. Opening Up Adrienne Rich's On Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence. Tina O'Toole11. Opening Up the Brundtland Committee's Our Common Future. Hilary ToveyConcluding Remarks. Fiona Dukelow and Orla O'Donovan