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A Social Support Intervention to Reduce Intentions to Drop-out from Youth Sport: The GAA Super Games Centre

open access: yesPsychosocial Intervention, 2019
Research has highlighted that drop-out from youth sport has emerged to become a global trend with drop-out rates exceeding 30% in some countries. This study aimed to investigate the effect of a change in perceived support on intentions to drop out from ...
David Lavallee   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

SAFEGUARDING AMATEUR ATHLETES AN EXAMINATION OF PLAYER WELFARE AMONG SENIOR INTER-COUNTY GAELIC PLAYERS. RESEARCH SERIES NUMBER 99 December 2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Following the publication of research into the commitments required of male Gaelic players to play senior inter-county, and knock-on effects of inter-county commitment (Kelly et al., 2018), the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and Gaelic Players ...
Keegan, Conor   +2 more
core  

Integrating sensor streams in pHealth networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Personal Health (pHealth) sensor networks are generally used to monitor the wellbeing of both athletes and the general public to inform health specialists of future and often serious ailments.
McCann, Dónall   +2 more
core   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
wiley   +1 more source

‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

A qualitative analysis of existing concussion return to play protocols and psychological recovery management in Gaelic games

open access: yesInternational Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
Background Sports related concussions are a common injury in field-based contact sports including Gaelic games. Even though accurate data on concussion in Gaelic games is currently limited, it is well documented that concussion is a common injury in ...
E. Daly, Lisa Ryan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From Margins to Networks: Minoritized Language Digital Content Creation's Impact on Linguistic Ideologies: The Galician Case

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By focusing on Galician‐language online content creation through a corpus of semistructured interviews with eight professional and semiprofessional influencers, this paper examines how language ideologies surrounding minoritized languages have been shaped and reshaped because of their inclusion in the digital realm.
Ramón Brais Freire Braña
wiley   +1 more source

Principles and Practical Strategies for Psychologically-Informed Coaching of Young Players in Gaelic Games: Introducing Síceolaíochas in an Oiliúint Lúthchleasaíocht na nÓige sna Cluíchí na nGael1 (SÍOL na nÓige)

open access: yesJournal of Sport Psychology in Action
The purpose of this article is to present proposed principles and actionable strategies for coaches to develop environments that facilitate positive sport experiences among young Gaelic games players.
Patricia C. Jackman   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bothy busi/yness: Recirculating representation and practice in the Scottish landscape

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses the ‘busi/yness’ of Scottish mountain bothies to explore the agency of representation and its entanglement with practice. In doing so it asks, firstly, what are the material and discursive impacts of a rise in the symbolic value of an object (or in this case a building)?
Rachel Hunt
wiley   +1 more source

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