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Ireland's introduction of transfer pricing: a new institutional theory perspective
(Irish Accounting and Finance Association, 2014)This article explores the rationale for Ireland’s introduction of transfer pricing legislation in 2010. For most multinational corporations, tax planning involves structuring the business in a way that justifi es the ... -
Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and the state's duty to protect
(Law Society of Ireland, 2011)Irish society has recently begun to come to terms with a legacy of systemic physical, sexual and emotional maltreatment of children from the 1930s to the 1970s in State-funded, Catholic Church-run Industrial and ... -
Ireland's Magdalene laundries: Confronting a history not yet in the past
(Arlen House, 2016)On 19th February 2013, the Taoiseach and Tánaiste offered an emotional apology to women who had survived Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries – the infamous convents where over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned and forced ... -
Ireland's progression towards a Knowledge Economy
(2007)Globalisation has made the world a very small place. Multi-National Companies (MNCs) seek to optimise their return on overseas investmentby applying stringent techniques for assessing the suitability of new markets. The ... -
Ireland, China, Belgium, Finland: brokentalkers and the transnational connectivities of post-Celtic Tiger Irish performance
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Ireland, India and Popular Nationalism in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Ireland, peacekeeping and policing the 'new world order'.
(Centre for Research and Documentation, 1997)The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the 'Cold War' has given rise to a situation where there is in effect one world 'superpower', the United States of America (US). The so called 'new world order' was intended ... -
Ireland, The Nation and the Woolfs, Part 1
(Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2019-05)Readers may be familiar with Virginia Woolf s diary entries concerning the shriek of agony that marked the death by hunger strike in October 1920 of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, as well as the violence in ... -
Ireland, The Nation and the Woolfs, Part 2
(Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2019-09)In The Nation editorials reproduced here from 9 October 1920, Leonard Woolf s succinct, clear writing style, consummate storytelling ability, and forceful declarative statements come to the fore. The opening paragraph of ... -
Irelands foreign-owned technology sector: evolving towards sustainability?
(Wiley, 2008)For some, Ireland¿s pursuit of an exogenous-led development model has proved to be the cornerstone of recent economic success. Others point to recent high-profile closures and argue that foreign-owned operations are attracted ... -
Irelands’ hidden pharmacy: Marine biodiscovery applied to deep-sea sponges and corals
(NUI Galway, 2022-06-08)Natural products have provided over 60% of our medicines to date, but their search has focused on easy to access habitats, leaving the marine realm underexplored. The deep-sea, which is the world’s largest biome and ... -
Ireland’s agri-food and drink sector: The correlation between eWOM initiatives and employee brand advocacy
(NUI Galway, 2020-01-20)The Irish agri-food and drink sector has a rich heritage. It is Ireland’s largest indigenous industry, employing 8.4% of the working population and generating an annual turnover of €27.5bn. SMEs within the sector use social ... -
Ireland’s experience of memorialisation in the context of serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law: A submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence
(Justice for Magdalenes Research, 2020-01-24)Background The systematic sexual, physical and emotional abuses which children experienced in Ireland’s Industrial and Reformatory Schools during the 20th century are discussed in the official report of the Commission ... -
Ireland’s medical brain drain: migration intentions of irish medical students
(Springer Nature, 2015-03-12)Background: To provide the optimum level of healthcare, it is important that the supply of well-trained doctors meets the demand. However, despite many initiatives, Ireland continues to have a shortfall of physicians, which ... -
IRF Off: Connacht's fight for survival and the foundation myth of a rugby Identity
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-08-24)Last of the four provincial branches to be formed in 1885, Connacht has always been fourth among equals in the pecking order of Irish rugby. In the late 1990s, spiralling costs associated with the administration of a ... -
Iris authentication in handheld devices - considerations for constraint-free acquisition
(IEEE, 2015-05)As a near ideal biometric, iris authentication is widely used and mobile acquisition techniques are known. But iris acquisition on handheld imaging devices, such as smartphones, poses multiple, unique challenges. In this ... -
Iris liveness detection for next generation smartphones
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016-07-19)This paper presents a novel liveness detection method that exploits the acquisition workflow for iris biometrics on smartphones using a hybrid visible (RGB)/near infra-red (NIR) sensor. These devices are able to capture ... -
Iris recognition on consumer devices - challenges and progress
(IEEE, 2015-11-11)This article outlines various technical, social and ethical challenges in implementing and widely adopting iris recognition technology on consumer devices such as smartphone or tablets. Acquisition of sufficient quality ... -
IRIS: English-Irish machine translation system
(European Language Resources Association, 2016-05-23)We describe IRIS, a statistical machine translation (SMT) system for translating from English into Irish and vice versa. Since Irish is considered an under-resourced language with a limited amount of machine-readable text, ... -
Irish and Roman relations: A comparative analysis of the evidence for exchange, acculturation and clientship from Southeast Ireland
(2013-12-20)My research presents a study of Roman finds from the Southeast of Ireland, with specific emphasis placed on the use and meaning of these artefacts in their local Irish contexts. These objects must be understood not just ...