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Rural out-migration and return: perspectives on the everyday reality and the idyll in Ireland
(Departament de Geografia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2020-02)
The aim of this article is to add to understandings of the rural idyll as an influence on
return migration. Interviews were conducted with thirty-four first generation rural returnees in Ireland and their responses were ...
‘Now for Our Irish Wars’ – Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman and the Irish Dramatic Canon
(Routledge, 2020-11-22)
This article explores the Irish features of Jez Butterworth’s _The Ferryman_, focussing on his
use of overfamiliar Irish tropes as well as his intertextual allusions to writers such as Brian
Friel, WB Yeats, and Seamus ...
Irish pirate radio 1978-1988: How political stasis allowed unlicensed radio to flourish and innovate
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020-10-12)
The history of pirate radio in Ireland remains understudied by comparison with other countries with histories
of unlicensed broadcasting. This is surprising given the extent and longevity of a large pirate radio scene ...
Planting new ideas: A feminist gaze on medieval castles
(Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2021-01)
The theme of the Château Gaillard 29 Conference “Vivre au
Château” is very timely: studies of medieval castles have great
potential to generate meaningful archaeologies, including
biographies and life cycles as well as ...
Creating context for corridors of consumption: the case of Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-01-25)
Global consumption levels are significant contributors to detrimental environmental change and the current climate crisis. Across Ireland, domestic consumption levels have increased dramatically during the past three ...
Post-glacial vegetation and landscape change in upland Ireland with particular reference to Mám Éan, Connemara
(Elsevier, 2021-01-20)
Holocene vegetation dynamics of mid-western Ireland are discussed with particular reference to the Galway and Mayo uplands, the development of upland blanket bog and the history of pine and yew. A detailed pollen profile ...
‘Sinn Féin permits … in the heels of their shoes’: Cumann na mBan emigrants and transatlantic revolutionary exchange
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-08-11)
The emigration of female revolutionary activists has largely eluded historical studies; their global movements transcend dominant national and regional conceptions of the Irish Revolution and challenge established narratives ...
Holocene vegetation dynamics, landscape change and human impact in western Ireland as revealed by multidisciplinary, palaeoecological investigations of peat deposits and bog-pine in lowland Connemara
(MDPI, 2021-11-15)
Palaeoecological investigations, involving pollen analysis, dendrochronology, and radiocarbon dating of bog-pine, provide the basis for reconstruction of vegetation dynamics, landscape development, and human impact in two ...
Old names for the River Suck and associated sites
(Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 2020)
This paper examines the evidence indicating that the names Bré and Dubainn Bré (and variants thereof) may be regarded as older, alternative names for the river Suck. It also considers textual references to some other ...