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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 ...
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 ...
Economic well-being in the Ballymote rural area: myth and reality
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1996)
Despite the many negative indicators such as falling population and high
emigration which are characteristic of the Northwest, the town of
Ballymote appears to be booming. In explaining this apparent contradiction,
...
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. ...
The emerging dynamic structure of national innovation studies: a bibliometric analysis
(Springer Verlag, 2016-10-26)
The state is still the significant unit for innovative studies during the age of R&D globalization and innovation regionalization. Using the bibliometric method, this paper attempts to provide a comprehensive picture of ...
Big Pharma's internationalization of R&D to China
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-04-18)
China's increasing integration into the global pharmaceutical value chain is occurring at a time when big pharma's traditional R&D model has entered a period of crisis, and when China faces significant challenges in providing ...
Implications of China's on-going dependence on foreign technology
(Elsevier, 2014-05-04)
This paper examines the on-going high level of dependency of China's economy on foreign sources of technology during the period since accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Because this dependency is a major cause ...