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‘Out of Proportion to the Small Loss’: Productivist agriculture in the farming novels of John McGahern and Halldór Laxness
(Edinburgh University Press, 2019-05)Ireland and Iceland, both (semi-)peripheral islands in relation to Europe's core hegemonic capitalism, once shared similar farming systems based on small holdings and rotational grazing. Today, however, agriculture looks ... -
Introducing the social robot MARIO to people living with dementia in long term residential care: Reflections
(Springer Verlag, 2019-06-14)MARIO is a social robot developed with and for people living with dementia (PLWD) to promote social connectivity and reduce loneliness and isolation by providing access to a number of applications that PLWD can access, via ... -
Reading Seán O'Casey in the GDR
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Geomagnetic survey on the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath, 1998-9
(Royal Irish Academy for the Discovery Programme, 2002-01)[No abstract available] -
Towards a human security vision of global climate action
(Elsevier, 2019-09-02)This commentary piece considers how smart climate action and effective climate resilience can be productively advanced via a securitization discourse that recalls the earlier emphases of the UN’s ‘human security’ concept ... -
Irish migration and return: continuities and changes over time
(Geographical Society of Ireland, 2016)The return of first generation migrants to the Republic of Ireland (RoI) is well documented since the 1980s, based on studies that adopt both structural and more humanistic approaches but continuities and changes over ... -
Achieving sustainability transitions in residential energy use across Europe: The importance of problem framings
(Elsevier, 2019-08-15)Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector is central to European energy policy. However, the speed and scale of sustainable energy transitions need to accelerate. There is a growing consensus that meeting ... -
Globalising the Easter Rising: 1916 and the challenge to empires
(Routledge, 2017-11-16)The year 1916 has recently been identified as “a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions.”1 Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of ... -
Remembering at the margins: trauma, memory practices and the recovery of marginalised voices at the Berlin-Hohenschonhausen memorial
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-11)The Berlin-Hohenschonhausen memorial is located on the site of the main remand prison for people detained by the Stasi, the GDR secret police. In this exploration of memory practices at the site, the concept of marginalisation ... -
Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health (CHErIsH) study: protocol for a feasibility study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2019-08-22)Introduction Childhood obesity is a public health challenge. There is evidence for associations between parentsâ feeding behaviours and childhood obesity risk. Primary care provides a unique opportunity for delivery of ... -
Sustainable transitions in residential energy use: Characteristics and governance of urban-based initiatives across Europe
(Elsevier, 2019-07-25)Reducing domestic energy use in cities has become a key focus in achieving sustainability goals. Recent and on-going efforts to address excessive residential energy use have taken various forms and have been initiated by ... -
Louise Hollandine and the Art of Arachnean Critique
(Amsterdam University Press, 2019-07-22)Louise Hollandine was an artist and student of internationally renowned Dutch painter Gerard van Honthorst. Though relatively few works now survive that can be authoritatively ascribed to her, Louise Hollandine s artistic ... -
From travel to mobility: Perspectives on journeys in the Russian, Central and East European past
(Routledge, 2019-03-28)This chapter introduces the “new mobilities paradigm” and argues for its application to the modern history of Russia, central and east Europe. It charts the emergence of this approach in the context of the more established ... -
Developing critical thinking, justification and generalisation skills in mathematics through Socratic questioning
(The Journal of Teacher Action Research, 2019)This paper reports on an action research study which explored the impact of Socratic questioning on student learning in a second-level mathematics classroom in Ireland. While students engaged in a higher order mathematical ... -
An exploration of resilience in adolescents facing maternal cancer
(Wiley, 2019-07-24)Background Research findings on the impact of parental cancer on adolescents are inconsistent, some studies identifying negative psychosocial impact but others identifying positive impact; however, there is not enough ... -
Health professional-delivered obesity prevention interventions during the first 1,000 days: A systematic review of external validity reporting
(F1000Research, 2019-07-19)Background: Childhood obesity prevention interventions delivered by health professionals during the first 1,000 days show some evidence of effectiveness, particularly in relation to behavioural outcomes. External validity ... -
The faster the better? Economic effects of the speed of inter‐city technology transfer in China
(Wiley, 2019-06-18)Although existing studies questioned the simple positive correlation between the technology transfer speed and the benefits, they have been widely condemned for lacking em-pirical evidence. Using the ... -
Challenging conventions towards energy sufficiency: ruptures in laundry and heating routines in Europe
(eceee Summer Study, 2019-06-03)This contribution proposes to address a central question in social science approaches to household energy studies: how do conventions around energy services evolve, how do they alter over time, and how can they be changed ... -
Geophysical survey of Knowth Area 11 [Apppendix 8]
(Royal Irish Academy, 2012-06)[No abstract available]