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School choice and school catchment: Post‐primary education in Galway city
(Taylor & Francis, 1984)
While research to date at the national level has
adequately illustrated the nature and extent of class
bias in Irish education, there has been little attempt
to examine the spatial organisation of the system at the
local ...
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 ...
Agricultural policy and land tenure in an Irish marginal country
(Geographical Society of Ireland, 1988)
This paper has a twofold objective. Firstly, recent land policy both at EEC and Irish government levels is evaluated from the perspective of the small family farm in County Lcitrim. one of Ireland's most marginal farming ...
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 ...
The distribution of economic well-being within the Northwest region
(De Gruyter Open, 1989)
For many years, geographers have concerned themselves with
the spatial dimension of economic development and with the
fact that the pattern of development, whether it occurs under
capitalist or socialist regimes, tends ...
The Sydney Irish: a hidden ethnic group
(Geographical Society of Ireland, 1988)
The relative position of the Irish immigrant population in Australia has been radically transformed during the present century, from being the largest non-British ethnic group to one of the smallest immigrant minorities. ...