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Planetary precarity and 'More-Than-Human Security' : The securitization challenge in the aftermath of COVID-19
(Librello, 2021-07-09)COVID-19 has elevated anew the import of holistically conceiving human-environmental well-being and tackling the overarching precarities of our ecologies, societies and public health in strategies of securitization. This ... -
Challenging practices: experiences from community and individual living lab approaches
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-05-20)In this article, we examine a change initiative designed to involve households in testing ways to transform two everyday practices heating and doing laundry. The research design included an examination of the challenges ... -
Irish settlements and survival
(Center for Irish Programs, Boston College,, 2021-03)[No abstract available] -
Post-glacial vegetation and landscape change in upland Ireland with particular reference to Mám Éan, Connemara
(Elsevier, 2021-01-20)Holocene vegetation dynamics of mid-western Ireland are discussed with particular reference to the Galway and Mayo uplands, the development of upland blanket bog and the history of pine and yew. A detailed pollen profile ... -
The man and his music: Gender representation, cultural capital and the Irish traditional music canon
(International Council for Traditional Music Ireland (ICTM Ireland), 2021-03-27)Through a re-examination of canonical Irish traditional music texts and the music-making spaces and practices these inform, this paper proposes that Irish traditional music, as social practice, has normalised hegemonic ... -
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries
(Elsevier, 2021-02-10)ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a ‘living lab’ approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced to 306 ... -
Creating context for corridors of consumption: the case of Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-01-25)Global consumption levels are significant contributors to detrimental environmental change and the current climate crisis. Across Ireland, domestic consumption levels have increased dramatically during the past three ... -
"Ní cathair mar a tuairisg í": (Mis)Representing the American city in the literature of the Gaelic Revival?
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A comparative archaeological review of the late prehistoric 'royal site' of Rathcroghan
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Mobilising the language of emergency: Human security and climate action discourse
(Royal Irish Academy, 2020)This paper considers the UN's 1994 concept of human security as indispensable in progressively framing climate security discourse. It argues for a human security agenda that encapsulates a broad and integrated security ... -
'Sick on the Irish Sea, Dancing Across the Atlantic': (Anti)Nostalgia in women's diasporic remembrance of the Irish revolution
(Indiana University Press, 2021-03-01)The substantial displacement of people following the Irish revolution (1916–1923), particularly of women, has little place in the state-sanctioned commemorative history of the period. This migration poses a number of ... -
Tending the ‘Contested’ castle garden: Sowing seeds of feminist thought
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-02-09)Medieval women are typically portrayed as secluded, passive agents within castle studies. Although the garden is regarded as associated with women there has been little exploration of this space within medieval archaeology. ... -
Alternative energy imaginaries: Implications for energy research, policy integration and the transformation of energy systems
(Elsevier, 2021-01-16)The paper highlights shortcomings in the contribution of qualitative social sciences and humanities (SSH) research to tackling challenges connected with energy and climate change. These shortcomings are illustrated based ... -
‘Sinn Féin permits … in the heels of their shoes’: Cumann na mBan emigrants and transatlantic revolutionary exchange
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-08-11)The emigration of female revolutionary activists has largely eluded historical studies; their global movements transcend dominant national and regional conceptions of the Irish Revolution and challenge established narratives ... -
Herstory: Exploring the material life of Gundrada de Warenne
(V & R Unipress GmbH and Bonn University Press, 2021-01)Scholarly work on castles draws on multiple sources from history, archaeology, art and architectural history to literary and religious studies. This places it inaunique position to be able to bring different threads together ... -
Ring(s) of truth: responses regarding curious ring-marks at Dowth
(Wordwell, 2019)Joe Fenwick shares some responses to his question regarding curious ring-marks at Dowth. -
Planting new ideas: A feminist gaze on medieval castles
(Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2021-01)The theme of the Château Gaillard 29 Conference “Vivre au Château” is very timely: studies of medieval castles have great potential to generate meaningful archaeologies, including biographies and life cycles as well as ... -
Rathcroghan revisited: A renewed archaeological and geophysical exploration of selected areas of the focal ritual complex
(Navan Research Group, 2020)A renewed programme of geophysical survey was implemented over selected archaeological features in the fields surrounding Rathcroghan mound during the summers of 2013 and 2014. This was undertaken as part of the Rathcroghan ... -
Haven: The Mediterranean crisis and human security
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020-10-06)[No abstract available]