Reforming the Irish public service: A multiple streams perspective
Following the Irish general election of 2011, a new ministry emerged which sought to combine public expenditure, industrial relations and public sector reform.
MacCarthaigh Muiris
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The afterlife of a tradition: European music and Irish literature in the nineteenth century
The presence of Irish literature in European art music of the nineteenth century has never been adequately explored. This presence, exemplified by Robert Schumann’s setting of Thomas Moore’s poem, Lalla Rookh (Das Paradies und die Peri, 1843), should be ...
Harry White
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Ecotourism as a tool for local sustainable development: The case of Burren, Ireland
Ireland’s environment is a key resource in the tourism sector. Burren area in Ireland is becoming an increasingly popular destination, with both international and domestic travellers, where ecotourism is the main activity contributing to the development ...
Makhabbat Ramazanova +3 more
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Food, Brexit and Northern Ireland: Critical Issues [PDF]
This report is the third in our Food Brexit Briefing series. It argues that the absence of serious consideration of food flows into, out of and through Northern Ireland is a significant policy omission in the ongoing Brexit negotiations.
Lang, T., Lewis, T., McFarlane, G.
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Irish "rose water revolutionaries": suicide of 1848
Introduction. The problem of nationalism, national movements, their content and methods of achieving goals relates not only to the analysis of the historical past, but also has a vivid topical nature.
A. V. Miroshnikov
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Countdown to 2010: Can we assess Ireland’s insect species diversity and loss? [PDF]
peer-reviewedThe insects are the most diverse organisms on this planet and play an essential role in ecosystem functioning, yet we know very little about them.
McCormack, Stephen +4 more
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Management of Isolated Islands: The example of Sceilg Mhichíl, Ireland
The island of Skellig Michael (in Irish, Sceilg Mhichíl) lies 11.6km off the westernmost tip of the Iveragh peninsula, Co. Kerry, Ireland. The island is approximately 21.9 hectares in area.
Edward Bourke
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Lucy Salyer, Associate Professor of History, travels to England and Ireland [PDF]
Professor Lucy Salyer traveled this summer to England and Ireland. While in England, she presented a paper at the Anglo-American Conference of Historians held in London and conducted research at the National Archives of the United Kingdom located in Kew.
Slayer, Lucy
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Creating good feelings about unhealthy food: children’s televised ‘advertised diet’ on the island of Ireland, in a climate of regulation [PDF]
Childhood eating habits and associations with advertising persist through life. Obesity is high in Ireland, and is increasing worldwide. Links between food promotion and children’s diets are well-established, and the World Health Organisation has called ...
Bergin, Rebecca +5 more
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Beckett and Disability Politics: The Case of Cuchulain [PDF]
In his depiction of the hero Cuchulain, Samuel Beckett interrogates how disability and compulsory able-bodiedness are foundational myths for the Irish Free State.
Siobhán Purcell
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