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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 ...
Parenting in Direct Provision: Parents' Perspectives Regarding Stresses and Supports
(Taylor and Francis, 2014-04-23)
The Irish direct provision system for asylum seekers is acknowledged as providing a very challenging and exclusionary living environment for adults and children. To date, there has been little research focused specifically ...
"They Pulled Me Through the Darkest Times": exploring the social benefits of a women's group in rural Ireland
(Social Care Ireland, 2019)
While much has been written about the importance of women’s groups in the developing world, less is known about whether such groups have relevance in western societies. In Ireland, women’s groups played a key role in ...
Remnants of Mr. and Mrs. Woolfs visit to Ireland in 1934
(Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2018-09)
Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Irish Tour
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...