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Abject Outcasts: Defining Oneself as an Outsider in the Northern Ireland Punk Subculture

open access: yesRevue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2021
Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, at a time when cross-community contact was relatively uncommon in Northern Ireland, the punk subculture attracted both young Catholics and Protestants who temporarily set aside their political, religious and ...
Timothy Heron
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Symbolic, Social and Territorial Boundaries: Paradoxes of Groupness and Potentials for Change in Northern Ireland

open access: yesReview of Irish Studies in Europe, 2023
This article focusses on social, symbolic and territorial boundaries in Northern Ireland, and the group relationships that they define. It asks how the social and symbolic boundaries have been renewed despite so much political and popular effort to move ...
Jennifer Todd
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Early to Mid-Holocene Tree Immigration and Spread in the Isle of Man: The Roles of Climate and Other Factors

open access: yesQuaternary, 2023
The Isle of Man is a large island which lies in the middle of the northern Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland and, because of its insularity and size, has an impoverished flora compared with the two main islands.
Richard C. Chiverrell   +7 more
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Quantifying nutrient and sediment erosion at riverbank cattle access points using fine-scale geo-spatial data

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2023
Unrestricted cattle access to the riparian zone can exacerbate riverbank erosion in grazed grassland catchments. Knowledge gaps include the magnitude of erosion and other environmental pressures at cattle access points.
Alison Scott   +4 more
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Fractal dimension of European Cities: A comparison of the patterns of built-up areas in the urban core and the peri-urban ring

open access: yesCybergeo, 2021
This study compares the urban form of large European cities using fractal dimensions. Fractal dimensions are computed for built-up areas using data available in the Imperviousness High Resolution Layer dataset (EEA, 2012), and are estimated following two
Apostolos Lagarias, Poulicos Prastacos
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Richard Bean’s The Big Fellah (2010) and Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman (2017): two plays about the Northern Troubles from outside of Northern Ireland

open access: yesIlha do Desterro, 2020
During the three decades of the Troubles of Northern Ireland (1969-1998), a remarkable amount of plays about the Troubles was written and almost of them, it seems, had been ‘monopolised’ by (Northern) Irish playwrights.
Hiroko Mikami
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Borders and boundaries in Northern Ireland and the poetry of Seamus Heaney

open access: yesNordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2014
This essay discusses the borders and boundaries between the poetry of Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel Laureate from Northern Ireland, and the Troubles of the border-riven society from which it stems.
Ruben Moi
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Shifting Identities and Social Change in Contemporary Ireland: The Effect of Displacement and Migration

open access: yesABEI Journal, 2011
In present-day Ireland – North and South – identity has become a subject of much debate. The influx of migrants has led to a radical change in the island’s demography.
Stephanie Schwerter
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“Traitors to the Prevailing Mythologies of the Four Others Provinces”?: A Tribute to Field Day on Their Twentieth Anniversary

open access: yesABEI Journal, 2002
Focusing on border-crossing as central to Field Day’s agenda, this article will try and assess the contribution made by the Derry-based company in terms of having created or enabled movement, both literally and metaphorically in the artistic and ...
Martine Pelletier
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Developing Social Cohesion through Schools in Northern Ireland and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: A Study of Policy Transfer

open access: yesJournal on Education in Emergencies, 2018
Transferring education policy from one country to another, or between supranational bodies and national administrations, is common practice, and the potential benefits for educational quality and standards are evident.
Loader, Rebecca   +3 more
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