Table of Contents

Introduction - Mary Ann Lyons and Fionnuala Waldron; 1. The Philosophy and Politics of Equality of Condition - John Baker; 2. Multiethnicity and the Idea of Europe - Ash Amin; 3. The Challenge of Diversity for Education in Northern Ireland - Alan Smith; 4. Equality, Dependency and Disability - Eva Feder Kittay; 5. Equality and Education: A Framework for Theory and Action - Kathleen Lynch; 6. Give Tongue Its Freedom: Children as Citizens of Irish Civic Society - Mary Shine Thompson; 7. Reflections on the Challenges of Inclusive Education: A Response to Eva Feder Kittay's Argument for Equal Dignity - Joseph Travers; 8. The Shape of Things to Come: A Reflective Summary of the Seamus Heaney Lecture Series, Perspectives on Equality - Ann Louise Gilligan.

About the Author

Mary Ann Lyons lectures in history in the Department of History, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra. Among other works, she is author of Church and Society in County Klldare, c. 1470-c. 1547 (2000) and France and Ireland, 1500-1610: Politics, Migration and Trade (2003). Fionnuala Waldron is Lecturer in Social, Environmental and Scientific Education (History) at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra.