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Rural emigration to international destinations and return: a perspective from Ireland
(Faculty of Letters, University of Porto, 2019)This chapter aims to contribute to a better understanding of international emigration from and return to rural areas using evidence from Ireland. The paper introduces key concepts relating to migration and return more ... -
Lea Castle: looking outwards
(Brepols Publishers, 2018)Lea Castle, Co. Laois, is located on the River Barrow where it occupied an important position at the borders of three medieval territories. The castle and landscape are currently neglected and in a poor state of repair. ... -
The magnetic presence of queen Medb: magnetic gradiometry at Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon
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The late prehistoric 'Royal Site' of Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon: An enduring paradigm of enclosed sacred space
(Navan Research Group, 2018)Rathcroghan (Cruácha), like the other late prehistoric royal sites of Tara (Temair), Co. Meath, Navan Fort (Emain Macha), Co. Armagh, and Knockaulin (Dún Ailinne), Co. Kildare features prominently in the literary imagination ... -
Gender and medieval archaeology: storming the castle
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-06-17)Despite more than three decades of feminist critique, archaeological scholarship remains predominantly focused on the exploration of patriarchal narratives and is, therefore, complicit in reinforcing structural inequalities. ... -
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 ... -
Understanding 'Hall-Houses': Debating Seigneurial buildings in Ireland in the 13th century
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-24)THE SEIGNURIAL HALL and chamber have been assumed, in both Britain and Ireland, to be typically located in the only building to generally survive on medieval residential sites. In England this idea has seen some revision, ... -
Rectangular chamber-towers and their medieval halls: A recent look at the buildings formerly described as “Hall-Houses”
(Presse Universitaires de Caen, 2016)The interpretation of the 13th-century castles formerly described as “hall-houses” has recently been a contentious topic in Irish (and Scottish) castle-studies2 . Little interpretive analysis of these buildings had been ... -
Lea Castle: the story so far
(Castle Studies Group, 2016)You could almost be forgiven for not knowing about Lea Castle: it is not located off an ‘important’ modern road, it is not set in an urban environment and it is not open to the public. Lea is possibly one of Ireland’s ... -
Book Review: The invention of race in the European Middle Ages
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Book Review: Lived Experience in the later Middle Ages: studies of Bodiam and other elite landscapes in south-eastern England
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-20)[No abstract available] -
Geomagnetic survey on the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, 1998-9
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Towards a human security vision of global climate action
(Elsevier, 2019-09-02)This commentary piece considers how smart climate action and effective climate resilience can be productively advanced via a securitization discourse that recalls the earlier emphases of the UN’s ‘human security’ concept ... -
Irish migration and return: continuities and changes over time
(Geographical Society of Ireland, 2016)The return of first generation migrants to the Republic of Ireland (RoI) is well documented since the 1980s, based on studies that adopt both structural and more humanistic approaches but continuities and changes over ... -
Achieving sustainability transitions in residential energy use across Europe: The importance of problem framings
(Elsevier, 2019-08-15)Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector is central to European energy policy. However, the speed and scale of sustainable energy transitions need to accelerate. There is a growing consensus that meeting ... -
Sustainable transitions in residential energy use: Characteristics and governance of urban-based initiatives across Europe
(Elsevier, 2019-07-25)Reducing domestic energy use in cities has become a key focus in achieving sustainability goals. Recent and on-going efforts to address excessive residential energy use have taken various forms and have been initiated by ... -
The faster the better? Economic effects of the speed of inter‐city technology transfer in China
(Wiley, 2019-06-18)Although existing studies questioned the simple positive correlation between the technology transfer speed and the benefits, they have been widely condemned for lacking em-pirical evidence. Using the ... -
Challenging conventions towards energy sufficiency: ruptures in laundry and heating routines in Europe
(eceee Summer Study, 2019-06-03)This contribution proposes to address a central question in social science approaches to household energy studies: how do conventions around energy services evolve, how do they alter over time, and how can they be changed ...