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1916 and Irish literature, culture and society: an introduction
Crosson, Seán (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015)1916 marked an important moment in the development of modern Ireland. The continuing resonance of the Republican Rising that took place in that year was evident in the now much quoted editorial of The Irish Times (18 Nov ... -
Academic freedom and the eye of power: the politics and poetics of open enclosures
Ryan, Kevin (Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-13)Transparency is both a powerful idea and a technology of power associated with accountability, justice and democracy, which opposes the secretive and shadowy power of surveillance wielded by states and corporations. This ... -
Advancing the dialogue between inner and outer empiricism.
Hogan, M.J. (2008)In a recent contribution to New Ideas in Psychology, Seán Ó Nualláin draws out a distinction between inner and outer empiricism, and suggests that consciousness research can benefit from analysis in both directions, that ... -
Aesthetics and emotion in an organisational ethnography
Kenny, Kate (Inderscience, 2008-11)In this paper, I argue that an aesthetic approach can help us to better understand workplace ethnography. Ethnography is sensory by nature; it can incorporate a feeling of rightness and beauty in the experience of 'being-with' ... -
Against didacticism
Hogan, Michael J. (2006-10)Quality thinking and quality teaching are desirable but difficult to achieve. Although lectures are necessary to teach information, one cannot rely on them to promote critical and constructive thinking skills. Nevertheless, ... -
Age-related task sensitivity of frontal EEG entropy during encoding predicts retrieval
O' Hora, D; Schinkel, S; Hogan, MJ; Kilmartin, L; Keane, M; Lai, R; Upton, N (Springer, 2013)Age-related declines in memory may be due in part to changes in the complexity of neural activity in the aging brain. Electrophysiological entropy provides an accessible measure of the complexity of ongoing neural activity. ... -
Agricultural policy and land tenure in an Irish marginal country
Grimes, Seamus (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 ... -
'Ah, Ireland, the caring nation': foreign aid and Irish state identity in the long 1970s
O'Sullivan, Kevin (Cambridge University Press, 2013-05)On a plane leaving Baidoa refugee camp in Somalia in late 1992, an Arab doctor offered John O'Shea, head of the relief agency Goal, a glimpse of how the Irish were viewed in that civil war-ravaged state. ‘Ah, Ireland’, he ... -
'Albert Nobbs', Ladies and Gentlemen, and Quare Irish Female Erotohistories
McIvor, Charlotte (Edinburgh University Press, 2013-05)This essay models an approach to quare Irish female erotohistoriography through analyzing George Moore's 1918 novella 'Albert Nobbs' (later adapted as The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs by French feminist playwright Simone ... -
Alexander Kluge: Utopian Cinema
Stoneman, Rod (Rodopi, 2007-10-01)Alexander Kluge's films, television programmes and his other diverse activities contribute to a developed understanding of contemporary politics and culture. He took a version of creative critical theory into spheres of ... -
Algorithms, social media and mental health
Felzmann, Heike; Kennedy, Rónán (Society for Computers and Law, 2016-09-28)Algorithmic identification of mental health characteristics is feasible on the basis of easily available information on social media. Such information can be extracted by algorithmic methods from publicly available ... -
All that Fall by Samuel Beckett, Pan Pan Theatre Company
Lonergan, Patrick (Irish Theatre Magazine, 2011)The first thing to say about Pan Pan’s performance of Beckett’s 1956 radio play is this: if you’re planning on going to it, please don’t read this review – it would be a shame to spoil the surprise that awaits you. And ... -
All we say is 'Life is crazy': - Central and Eastern Europe and the Irish Stage
Lonergan, Patrick (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2009)[No abstract available] -
'And like the sea God was silent': Multivalent water imagery in Silence
McCormack, Frances (Bloomsbury, 2015-02-26)[No abstract available] -
Anticipating a postnationalist Ireland: representing Gaelic Games in Rocky Road to Dublin (1968) and Clash of the Ash (1987)
Crosson, Seán (Peter Lang, 2010)This article charts the movement towards what might be called, following from Richard Kearney’s 1995 book, a post-nationalist approach to representing gaelic games in film, particularly since the late 1960s through an ... -
"Ar son an Naisiuin": The National Film Institute of Ireland's All-Ireland Films
Crosson, Seán (Irish-American Cultural Institute, 2013)On 4 September 1948 the Irish Independent newspaper carried a small announcement on page ten indicating that the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) had authorized the filming of the All-Ireland hurling and football finals ... -
Arrive bearing gifts: Postcolonial Insights for development management
Kenny, Kate (Zed Books, 2008)Organizations working in the development sector play an important role in contemporary processes of globalization. The term globalization has many interpretations, but it tends to refer to a certain set of observed societal ... -
The art of democracy: constitutive power and the limits of dissensus
Ryan, Kevin (Taylor & Francis, 2014-10-03)This article engages critically with the normative framing of socially engaged/collaborative art as a consensual/dissensual dichotomy, whereby consensualpractices are equated with political abdication. This way of framing ... -
Assembly Places and Elite Collective Identities in Medieval Ireland
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (2015)This paper investigates relationships between assembly places and expressions of collective identities among Gaelic elites during the period from the 9th to the 16th century in Ireland. -
At a crossroads: investigating automobility and its implications for local urban transport policy design
Hynes, Mike (MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2017-05-05)More people than ever before are living in urban settlements, increasing competition for living space, employment, food, water, and energy. Urbanisation poses many challenges, most notably meeting the basic health and ...