Browsing School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies by Title
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Assembly Places and Elite Collective Identities in Medieval Ireland
(2015)This paper investigates relationships between assembly places and expressions of collective identities among Gaelic elites during the period from the 9th to the 16th century in Ireland. -
Ballinderry Crannóg No. 2, Co. Offaly: the Later Bronze Age
(Wordwell Limited in association with the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland, 1997)A reconsideration of the later Bronze Age horizon at Ballinderry No. 2 where the Harvard Archaeological Mission uncovered a substantial rectangular wooden building. A case is made for the former existence of a second such ... -
Beyond calorie counting: assessing the sustainability of food provided for public consumption
(Elsevier, 2015-06-19)Food consumption outside home is a growing phenomenon that is rapidly gaining in importance in terms of its impact on both consumers and the food system. This paper presents an innovative tool for measuring the sustainability ... -
Beyond economics: redefining development
(De Gruyter Open, 1992)Since the short-lived interlude of impressive growth and prosperity in the 1970s, the dual scourges of involuntary emigration and high unemployment have returned to plague Irish society. Having increasingly become part ... -
Beyond the Flâneur. Urban walking as peripatetic phenomenological pedagogy
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-02-16)This essay analyses a key motif in geographical scholarship: the most basic form of mobility achieved by an abled-bodied person engaging in acts of walking. By embedding “walking” firmly within a phenomenological tradition, ... -
Beyond the martial façade: gender, heritage and medieval castles
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-07-02)Gendered interpretations are rare both within castle-studies and heritage discourses on medieval castles. Yet, castles hold potential to inform multi-vocal accounts of the medieval past and to inspire meaningful heritage ... -
Big Pharma's internationalization of R&D to China
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-04-18)China's increasing integration into the global pharmaceutical value chain is occurring at a time when big pharma's traditional R&D model has entered a period of crisis, and when China faces significant challenges in providing ... -
Bog-deal in Co. Clare, with particular reference to bog-pine and its significance
(Shannon Archaeological and Historical Society, 2022)The results of radiocarbon dating of bog-deal (three pine and one oak) from the north-west Burren (Gragan West) and south-west Clare (Binvoran and Tullaher) are reported on. The Binvoran and Tullaher samples yielded ... -
Book review: Human Incumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine
(SAGE Publications, 2012-11-15)In 1860, the Irish nationalist writer John Mitchell avowed that ‘The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine’ (from The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)). The aphorism quickly became ... -
Book Review: Lived Experience in the later Middle Ages: studies of Bodiam and other elite landscapes in south-eastern England
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Book Review: The invention of race in the European Middle Ages
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-18)[No abstract available] -
A booming country- a booming countryside? The Celtic Tiger phenomenon and the consequences for rural areas
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The Bronze Age Burials of Ireland
(Galway University Press, 1990)A county-by-county survey of Irish Bronze Age burials recorded up to the mid 1980s -
Building coastal and marine resilience in Ireland
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Building policy for a youth friendly rural future: Possibilities and contradictions using a future foresight approach
(University of Galway, 2022-09-28)[No abstract available] -
Causes and consequences of fertility decline
(De Gruyter Open, 1993)While there is widespread concern throughout Europe during the current period of economic recession with high levels of unemployment and the recent upsurge in refugee movements associated with the serious ethnic conflict ... -
The Cave of Crúachain and the Otherworld
(2014)Oweynagat (Úaimh na gCat), the cave of the cats, is a natural cave with a souterrain attached in the royal site of Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon. Today it is an inconspicuous monument but is famous in early literature as an ... -
The Celticization of the West: an Irish perspective
(1991)It is argued that the emergence of a Celtic language in Ireland was the culmination of a long process of social and economic interaction at an elite level between Ireland and Britain, and between these islands and adjacent ... -
Central places in a rural archaeological landscape
(Eagle Hill Institute, 2018)Archaeological survey in western Ireland has identified the existence of clusters of activity within the mapped landscapes of the 5th to 12th centuries A.D. Exploring this further, it is possible to identify elements ... -
Challenges for coastal management in Ireland. Case study: The Maharees, Castlegregory, County Kerry
(NUI Galway, 2016)[No abstract available]