This second edition of a highly successful textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to social policy in Ireland addressing a range of social policy topics of growing importance in contemporary Irish society including issues related to children, service users and groups, migration, ethnicity, sexuality and climate change.

Dr Fiona Dukelow, Lecturer in Social Policy, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland. Her research interests include critical welfare theory and various aspects of historical and contemporary Irish social policy. Dr Mairéad Considine was previously a Lecturer in Social Policy at the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland. Her research interests include social protection, pensions policy, social policy and welfare state change.