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Labour and education-related migration in the age of globalisation: new links between Brazil and Ireland
(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2018-12-22)International migration over great distances is one expression of increased global connectivity. Migration between Brazil and Ireland since the late 1990s illustrates three well-recognised contemporary flows: recruitment ... -
Late Cenozoic deposits at Reedy Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains: implications for former thickness of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
(Elsevier, 2010-01-19)Deposits corresponding to multiple periods of glaciation are preserved in ice-free areas adjacent to Reedy Glacier, southern Transantarctic Mountains. Glacial geologic mapping, supported by (10)Be surface-exposure dating, ... -
Late glacial fluctuations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A.
(Cambridge University Press and Elsevier, 2015-03-19)Prominent moraines deposited by the Laurentide Ice Sheet in northern New England document readvances, or stillstands, of the ice margin during overall deglaciation. However, until now, the paucity of direct chronologies ... -
Late Pleistocene snowline fluctuations at Nevado Coropuna (15 degrees S), southern Peruvian Andes
(Wiley, 2011-02-09)Deposits preserved on peaks in the southern Peruvian Andes are evidence for past glacial fluctuations and, therefore, serve as a record of both the timing and magnitude of past climate change. Moraines corresponding to the ... -
Liberal lawfare and biopolitics: US juridical warfare in the war on terror
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Local governance and sustainable rural development: Ireland's experience in an EU context
(Univerza v Mariboru, Filozofska Fakulteta, 2009)This paper discusses the role of local governance partnerships in promoting sustainable rural development with reference to EU policy over the past two decades. Ireland’s experience is presented as an example. From the ... -
The Long War: CENTCOM, grand strategy, and global security
(University of Georgia Press, 2017-06-15)[No abstract available] -
Long-term human impact and environmental change in mid-western Ireland, with particular reference to Céide Fields – an overview
(Copernicus Publications on behalf of the Deutsche Quartärvereinigung (DEUQUA), 2020-02-11)This paper presents new palaeoecological data from north Co. Mayo, western Ireland, and reviews published data with a view to achieving a better understanding of the timing and nature of early farming in the region, its ... -
A lost heritage: The Connaught Rangers and multivocal Irishness
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Low growth, falling competitiveness and high unemployment as Europe approaches the 21st century
(De Gruyter Open, 1994)The European Council, at its meeting in Copenhagen in June 1993, reaffirmed the growth initiatives endorsed in Edinburgh the previous December and at the ECOFIN meeting in April 1993. The conclusions of the European Council ... -
The migration link between Cois Fharraige and Portland, Maine, 1880s to 1920s
(Geographical Society of Ireland, 1989)From the 1880s onwards, the west coast of Ireland — particularly the Congested Districts — formed a major source area of emigration to North America. This paper focuses on part of that outflow from Cois Fharraige. west of ... -
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 ... -
The moral dimension of third world development
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1997)The 1987 Encyclical of Pope John Paul II, Solicitudo Rei Socialis is a most remarkable statement on the problem of development, particularly in relation to the Third World. While following the tradition of the social ... -
Negotiating colonialism: Gaelic reaction to English expansion in early modern Ireland, c.1541–1641
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New opportunities and cautionary steps? Farmers, forestry and rural development in Ireland
(Sciendo, 2011-03-30)It is argued that European agriculture is currently confronted with a multitude of critical challenges and developmental changes, in which the viability of farms based solely on traditional forms of production applies ... -
New threats to human security in the Anthropocene: Demanding greater solidarity
(United Nations Development Programme, 2022)We are faced with a development paradox. Even though people are on average living longer, healthier and wealthier lives, these advances have not succeeded in increasing people¿s sense of security. This holds true for ... -
Non-agricultural employment in northwestern Ireland: a peripheral region in the 1970s
(Geographical Society of Ireland, 1987)Considerable spatial variation characterized the pattern of return migration and subsequent house construction during the 1970s in the northwest. Ireland's poorest and most peripheral region. Underlying this pattern of ...