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The NUI Galway campus is located on the western bank of the River Corrib and extends from near the city centre to the mouth of Lough Corrib. The Department was established in 1962, the Chair of Geography in 1968. The Department is housed in purpose-built accommodation between the Concourse and the river. It has a large practical room with cartographic facilities, a number of small laboratories, a PC and GIS suite and an extensive map collection. Geography students have access to the university computer network.
Typically, each full-time member of the faculty is involved in Postgraduate supervision with M.Litt. and Ph.D.'s and teaches three speciality courses per academic year to second- and third- year students and contributes to first-year lectures, practical classes and field class preparation and delivery. In addition, the Department is actively involved in the delivery of courses through the medium of Irish, which are taught by staff members with competence in the language and part-time members of staff.
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The Long War: CENTCOM, grand strategy, and global security
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Negotiating colonialism: Gaelic reaction to English expansion in early modern Ireland, c.1541–1641
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Humanity’s legacies: historical geographies in the present
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The imperial present: Geography, imperialism and its continued effects
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Foucault and the colonial subject: Emergent forms of colonial governmentality in early modern Ireland
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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 ... -
Consideration of coastal risk in the Irish spatial planning process
(Elsevier, 2014-11-29)The vulnerability of coastal areas to associated hazards is increasing due to population growth, development pressure and climate change. It is incumbent on coastal governance regimes to address the vulnerability of coastal ... -
Comments on marine litter in oceans, seas and beaches: Characteristics and impacts
(JSciMed Central, 2015-06-11)Abstract Marine litter is observed along shorelines, pelagic, benthic marine and lake systems all around the globe. On beaches, litter creates aesthetic and related economic problems because a clean beach is one of the ... -
The fetch effect on aeolian sediment transport on a sandy beach: a case study from Magilligan Strand, Northern Ireland
(Wiley, 2016-04-22)Experiments were conducted on Magilligan Strand, Northern Ireland, to assess the influence of the fetch effect on aeolian sediment transport. During each experiment surface sediments were uniformly dry and unhindered by ... -
Geoeconomics in the Long War
(Wiley, 2015-09-15)In Neil Smith's American Empire (2003, University of California Press), he makes the case that the current moment of US global ambition is characterized by a network of imperial power that is exercised in the first place ... -
Securitizing instability: The US military and full spectrum operations
(SAGE Publications, 2015-01-01)This paper examines the recent broadening of the US military’s overseas mission into what it calls ‘full spectrum operations’ and critiques how it is being enabled by what I term ‘full spectrum law’. The paper explores the ... -
US Central Command and liberal imperial reach: 'Shaping the Central Region for the 21st Century'
(Wiley, 2014-11-26)For over 30 years, the grand strategy of one of the most important commands in the US military, Central Command (CENTCOM), has consistently held fast to a commitment to neoliberal capitalism and an ostensibly free-market ... -
Field-based learning: the challenge of practising participatory knowledge
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-05-14)In 2009, Geography at National University of Ireland, Galway, launched a new taught master's programme, the MA in Environment, Society and Development. The vision for the programme was to engage students in the analysis ... -
Participative critical enquiry in graduate field-based learning
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-10-09)This paper outlines a critical pedagogic approach to field-based learning (FBL) at graduate level. Drawing on student experience stemming from a FBL module and as part of an MA programme in Environment, Society and ...