Creativity and Human Development

Michael O'Reilly is a lawyer with an extensive background in legal practice, cultural policy development, political consultancy, and the arts. He worked as a senior consultant to 'Ireland 2016', the Government's 1916 centenary commemoration programme, followed by the conceptualisation and design of its legacy initiative: 'Creative Ireland'.

1. Human Creativity—Value and Values.- 2. Creativity as the Practice of Widened Possibilities.- 3. Metamorphic Tools and Human Creativity: Why AI Cannot Create.- 4. Creativity and the Musical Being.- 5. A Second History of Architecture.- 6. Our Finest Work Yet.- 7. Place and Knowledge Creation.- 8. Bunreacht na hÉireann: The 1937 Irish Constitution—A Sufficiently Creative Instrument to Meet the Challenges of Our Age?.- 9. Irish Universities as Profoundly Creative Spaces.- 10. ‘Suddenly, Occasionally, Eventually . . .’ Cultivating Creativity in the Curriculum.- 11. Children’s Rights and Creativity: A Policy Review.- 12. Creativity, Connection, and Care: Changing Minds and Bridging Health Divides.- 13. Creativity and Social Transformation: Lessons from the Irish Revival.- 14. Making Something Happen: Irish Theatre as a Creative Laboratory.- 15. The Creative Nation Revisited.