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Feamainne (Seaweed) Sensory Biocultural Heritage in Ireland's Gaeltacht Archipelago

open access: yesVisual Anthropology Review, Volume 41, Issue 2, Fall 2025.
Abstract The significance and representation of seaweed in Éire (Ireland) is remediated through a complex historical and sensory discussion that situates seaweed as biocultural heritage. The deeply sensory stories of seaweed in Ireland foreground highly localized efforts to use seaweed‐ based traditions to support local practices that emerge from ...
Fiona P. McDonald   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Joint initiative on community participation in primary health care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Social Inclusion Division of the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs and the HSE developed a Joint Initiative to support the involvement of disadvantaged communities and groups in the development of primary health care services at
Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs Social Inclusion Division   +1 more
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Special Educational Needs Prevalence in Irish-Immersion Schools

open access: yesEncyclopedia
For the purposes of this entry, special educational needs (SEN) refers to a condition where a student requires additional support to access education due to a disability, learning difficulty, or other developmental challenges.
Sinéad Nic Aindriú
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Environmental policy in agricultural landscapes: The need for balancing ecosystem health and biodiversity conservation

open access: yesEcological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 3, July–September 2025.
This article explores how agri‐environmental policies designed to improve water quality may conflict with biodiversity conservation goals, particularly in intensively managed arable landscapes. Focusing on Ireland's green cover requirement under the 5th Nitrates Action Programme, we assess potential trade‐offs for farmland birds dependent on winter ...
Kilian J. Murphy, Daire Ó hUallacháin
wiley   +1 more source

Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs annual report 2007. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This the seventh Annual Report for the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, reports on progress made in the implementation of our high-level goals and targets set out in the Statement of Strategy 2008-2010.

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Genetic Diversity and Differentiation of Irish Freshwater Pearl Mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera): Identification of Conservation Units and Recommendations for the Management of Wild and Hatchery Populations

open access: yesAquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 35, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT The freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera (FPM) has substantially declined throughout Europe. It is a target species in conservation of freshwater biodiversity, with several restoration and captive breeding efforts in place. Understanding the spatiotemporal patterns of genetic diversity in relation to environmental factors is ...
Juergen Geist   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Survival of Irish Gaelic in the Gaeltacht of County Galway, 1880-1920 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the 1850s in post-famine Ireland, the Irish-Gaelic language was neglected in favor of English which equipped speakers to be members of the United Kingdom.
Hogan, Eileen
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Evaluation of Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION Sequencer as a Novel Short Amplicon Metabarcoding Tool Using Arthropod Mock Sample and Irish Bat Diet Characterisation

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2025.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION (ONT) Nanopore‐NanoPipe pipeline was compared to Illumina‐Obitools command‐line pipeline by using arthropod mock community input DNA for metabarcoding analysis. We demonstrated that a relatively simple ONT sequencing metabarcoding procedure followed by user‐friendly bioinformatics processing by graphical interface ...
James M. Nolan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional development in minority language territories: state policies, structures and interventions in the Irish Gaeltacht

open access: yes, 2016
The primary aim of this thesis was to critically assess the capacity of the state to conceptualise and implement policies in support of the sustainable development of the Gaeltacht, and to do so through an integrated spatial model of development which is
Ó Neachtain, Éamonn
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Epenthesis in Contact Irish English Spoken in the Connemara Gaeltacht

open access: yesTeanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
Varieties of ‘Contact Irish English’ (CIE), i.e. English spoken by native Irish speakers, are often thought to display significant phonological influence from Irish (Hickey, 1986, 2007; Ó hÚrdail, 1997).
Kate Tallon, Airelle Théveniaut
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