Browsing School of Political Science and Sociology by Subject "Ireland"
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Bridging the gap: Using Veerman and Van Yperen's (2007) framework to conceptualise and develop evidence informed practice in an Irish youth work organisation
(2016-04)While there is considerable support among the policy, practice and academic communities for the idea that practice in youth work should be based on evidence, Veerman and Van Yperen (2007) highlight the fact that little ... -
A comparative examination of schools' responses to bereavement and the associated needs of the school community in Galway, West of Ireland and Derry, Northern Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-09-02)The aim and objective of this study is to examine and compare how schools in Galway, Republic of Ireland and Derry in the North of Ireland (cities located within two independent jurisdictions in Ireland) manage and respond ... -
Dangerously Empty? Hegemony and the construction of the Irish Entrepreneur
(SAGE Journals Online, 2012-03)In this paper we build on Jones and Spicer's (2009) conceptualisation of the entrepreneur as an empty signifier. We explore the function of the signifier 'entrepreneurship' within a social context marked by crisis: Ireland ... -
Developing (Tele)work? A multi-level sociotechnical perspective of telework in Ireland
(Elsevier, 2016-09-21)The ubiquitous nature and use of technology in contemporary societies continues to transform lives and work environments. At the same time, transport continues to be a major source of harmful emissions. Telework has been ... -
Developing policies and instruments for sustainable consumption: Irish Experiences and Futures
(Springer, 2011-03)In recent years, the concept of sustainable consumption (SC) has received increased attention. Overconsumption in industrialized countries still presents major challenges to achieving sustainable development goals despite ... -
Does the work role of Catholic clergy contribute to the disenfranchisement of their grief?
(Sage, 2015-09-01)While bereavement-related compassion fatigue and burnout have been studied in many helping professions, this researcher has found no peer-reviewed articles based specifically on bereavement experiences of Roman Catholic ... -
Echanges épistolaires Echanges épistolaires en anthropologie : l'enquête Harvard-Irlande/ Letters in anthropological research: the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936)
(2011)This article examines a selection of the professional and private letters associated with the social anthropology strand of the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936). These research letters contribute to the historiography of ... -
Empathy, social values and civic behaviour among early adolescents in Ireland: Composite report
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2019)This new century is indeed one of pressing global issues, from climate change to large-scale migration and displacement – issues that challenge us to exercise our capacity for empathy, to feel for the plight of those we ... -
Empathy, social values and civic behaviour among early adolescents in Ireland: Scientific report
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2019)At an international level, there is evidence that empathy values, social concern, and civic engagement are declining among younger generations as a consequence of the increasing individualisation of society over ... -
Epistolary research relations: Correspondences in anthropological research: Arensberg, Kimball, and the Harvard-Irish Survey, 1930 1936
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2017-10)In public and personal archives scattered throughout the United States lie the professional correspondences and personal letters of the Harvard-Irish Survey research team (1930 36) that came to Ireland in the early years ... -
Finding ‘Room to Manoeuvre’: Gender, agency and the family farm
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)Women on Irish farms have been a subject of feminist analysis over the past two decades. Salient themes in the literature on farm women have been the constraints of patriarchal agriculture (O'Hara 1997; Shortall, 2004), ... -
From care packages to Zoom cookery classes: youth work during the COVID-19 “lockdown”
(Emerald, 2022-03-10)Purpose: This paper explores the experience of one large Irish youth work organisation, Foróige, to measures introduced during the initial phase of Covid-19 in 2020. In the face of the unprecedented crisis including the ... -
Gender justice and Ireland’s Human Rights Council commitments: Challenging the gaps between rhetoric and practice
(Essex Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, 2015-01)As Ireland commences its first three-year term on the United Nations Human Rights Council, this article highlights the gaps between the pledges that Ireland made during its campaign for election to the Council and its ... -
Governing the future: children's health and biosocial power
(Manchester University Press, 2017-05-31)Hannah Arendt’s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine childhood as a prefigurative form of biopolitics. This concerns practices that seek ... -
The "green wave" that never happened: the general election in 2007
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Growth, public policy and regional models in Ireland and Malaysia
(2007-11)What exactly constitutes 'good governance' in a highly globalized economy? Developmental state theory suggests that high-growth "tiger" economies have "developmental" features and capabilities that other states lack, ... -
Ireland's abortion regime on the world stage: Performative acts and the claim to state sovereignty in foreign policy discourse
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Lone parents and activation, what works and why: a review of the international evidence in the Irish context
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2016-09)This research sought to discover those policies, programmes and practices which enable lone parents to engage in employment which will lead to adequate living standards and improved well-being for them and their children. ... -
The material for victory: The memoirs of Andrew J. Kettle
(Open Press at the University of Galway, 2023-10-21)A well-known champion of tenant farmers' rights and land reform, Andrew J. Kettle (1833-1916) was a co-founder of the Land League with Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell, an advocate of Irish Home Rule, a progressive ...